Deipnosophist is a Jacobean word for a skillful dinner conversationalist.

Are you a deipnosophist when it comes to dinner parties or do you wind everyone up because you are nothing more than a doryphore?

YOU may be a deipnosophist but some doryphore will still say you're giving him otalgia.

If you are a deipnosophist you are skilled in the art of dinnertable conversation.

Moyle takes pleasure in his ability as a deipnosophist . Schmoozing is one of his talents.

Yonge, The Deipnosophists , or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus, 3 vols.

Gomme (1925, 16-7) rejected the idea that there was such a class of women in classical Athens, an idea that came, it seems, both from comparisons of women like Aspasia to the courtesans of the modern world and from the projection of ideas from Second Sophistic works like Athenaeus's Deipnosophists and Lucian's Chattering Courtesans back into the fifth century BCE.

The Deipnosophists (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928).