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LEXICOGRAPHER: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Source: Dictionary of the English Language (1755). Under the entry for Dull, Johnson gave the following illustration: To make dictionaries is dull work.
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.

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