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名詞

confabulist (plural confabulists)

1. One who confabulates; a companion with whom one chats or confers.

   Synonym: confabulator

   • 1849, Emma Robinson, Owen Tudor: An Historical Romance - Volume 2, page 26:

     I knew him only as a grey-bearded sage — he was my father's friend and close confabulist! " said Hueline, with a slight smile.

   • 1970, The People Their Rights and Liberties Their Duties and Their Interests:

     ... his heaven—the organ and confabulist of angels and spirits, their ideal brother.

   • 1993, Alex Blackburn, Writers' Forum, →ISBN, page 90:

     He's bonded Monte Alban guide, a sidewalk Sophist, Palenque wizard, brother in arms and drink confabulist, Mixtec and Zapotec, globetrotting cosmologist with answers for everything in his bag of tricks: solving problems for men floating belly-up, for doubting warriors who now scratch their heads.

2. One who invents elaborate stories, especially false ones misrepresented as if they were true.

   Synonym: confabulator

   • 1995, Alexander McCall Smith, Heavenly Date: And Other Stories, page 121:

     The confabulist, who simply cannot resist making up stories, wastes an enormous amount of other people's time.

   • 1998, Sally Clark, Wasps: A Drawing Room Comedy for Distempered Times, page 33:

     Oh — well, you see, that part's true. But not everything I say is true. Part of my illness. I'm a confabulist.

   • 2001, L Rogers, BC Peace, PK Page: Essays on Her Works:

     The confabulist loves the tools of her trade, the stream of words that is a river of stars flowing through the knowable universe, but words are only anthills and mountains, aspects from which the river is seen.