noun
- a person who tells anecdotes or collects and relates short amusing or interesting stories
Examples
- The dinner party’s anecdotalist kept everyone entertained with tales from his travels.
- She was known as the office anecdotalist, always ready with a funny story.
- The memoir revealed the author to be a skilled anecdotalist.
- As an anecdotalist, he had a gift for making ordinary events sound extraordinary.
- The professor was more of an anecdotalist than a lecturer, preferring stories to theory.
- Every family gathering needs an anecdotalist to break the ice.