Brewer's: Ryparographer

(Greek). So Pliny calls Pyricus the painter, because he confined himself to the drawing of ridiculous and gross pictures, in which he greatly excelled. Rabelais was the ryparographer of wits. (Greek, ruparos, foul, nasty.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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