Noun: ferroequinologist
| Singular | ferroequinologist |
| Plural | ferroequinologists |
Sample Sentences
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1954, Trains, Kalmbach Pub. Co.
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And because you care, you’ve automatically classified yourself as a railfan (alias railroad enthusiast, train-watcher, ferroequinologist).
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[E]ven more outrageously, a person heavily into trains is not a trainspotter but a ferro-equinologist (an iron-horsist, no less). [1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 18:]
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The fact that automobiles, buildings, clothing, bridges, watches, locomotives (my personal favorite, being a ferroequinologist!), ad infinitum are designed by people has no bearing whatsoever... [1990 October 19, Bruce Tiffany, “Re: 'America, a Godless State' and 'Barbaric Theists' merged.”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):]
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It's a schnazzy-looking engine, looks a lot like a GP-35, which I believe our ferroequinologist guru Roger Mitchell says it was rebuilt from. [1991 November 20, Warren T. Brill, “Re: what does this mean?”, in rec.railroad (Usenet):]
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I'd tell you to take the kids on the mixed train.... It was fun even for a raiload^([sic]) victim like me - ferroequinologist father. [1992 August 8, Doretta Hanschka, “Re: Outta here for awhile...^([sic])”, in bit.listserv.words-l (Usenet):]
Nouns inflected like ferroequinologist
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin ferrum (“iron”) + Latin equus (“horse”) + English -logist (“one who studies”). See: Latin Nouns '
ferrum'.