masticator

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noun

Someone who masticates.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounmasticator (plural masticators)

plural masticators

  1. Someone who masticates.

    If we can take the liberty of reducing Govani's clever phrasing and paper-thin beards to plain English, Linda Evangelista is a simpleton, Margaret Atwood is a pretentious bore and Angelina Jolie is a goat-like masticator.

    2009 September 6, Cathal Kelly, “Will a gossip king's invites dry up?”, in Toronto Star
    1 more example

    We encourage their singing as much as we can," said the brother of the proprietor, himself a diligent masticator of the weed, who attended us, and politely explained to us the process of making plug tobacco; "we encourage it as much as we can, for the boys work better while singing.

    1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller
  2. A machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people.
  3. A machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.
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APA

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Chicago

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