transfixer

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noun

Something that transfixes.

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Meanings

nountransfixer (plural transfixers)

plural transfixers

  1. Something that transfixes.
    1 more example

    When I was coming of age in the '60s, I squirmed and squiggled not to be pinned down by that great transfixer "the homosexual" which American psychiatry had made into such a weighty implement. To be stuck by that label, it seemed to me, would mean having to live my life as a case history in a medical text book.

    1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9

Origin

From transfix + -er.

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Cite this entry
APA

transfixer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transfixer

MLA

“transfixer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transfixer. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transfixer,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transfixer.

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