Meanings
plural idiotors
- humorousinformalAn editor who makes idiotic decisions or writes idiotorials.
The world is full of second third and fourth rate idiotors, I mean editors/rejectors, who have forgotten how to read because of an excess of consummation.
1998, Larry McCaffery, Thomas Hartl, Doug Rice, Federman A to X-X-X-X: a recyclopedic narrative, page 1462 more examples
Echoes of Mallock's arguments are still in the air, and every time some "idiotor" of a great daily wants to write a rant against the “Reds” he grabs his well-worn copy of Mallock, breathes in some of its inspiration and then blows it out into a long-winded, big-worded “idiotorial” on Socialism.
1922, August Claessens, The Trinity of Plunder, page 20As a rule the leader of the separate school drive is some ecclesiastical clown, some pusillanimous pedagogue, some piecounter politician (more spiritous than spiritual), some real estate dealer who has risen above “the mired mass” by robbing the “mired mass,” and shoving them farther in the mire, or some editor (idiotor), long on inspiration and short on information.
1925, The Messenger - Volume 7, page 197
Origin
Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
idiotor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/idiotor
“idiotor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/idiotor. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “idiotor,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/idiotor.
Source: idiotor on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.