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masticator

masticator noun: someone who masticates.

Noun

masticator (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
    • 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.

Forms of masticator

pluralmasticators

Questions about masticator

What does masticator mean?
Masticator means someone who masticates.
What part of speech is masticator?
Masticator is a noun.
What is the plural of masticator?
The plural of masticator is masticators.

Words near masticator in the dictionary

  1. masticaters
  2. masticates
  3. masticating
  4. mastication
  5. mastications
  6. masticator
  7. masticatoric
  8. masticatories
  9. masticators
  10. masticatory
  11. masticatory force

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