masticator
English edit
Noun edit
masticator (plural masticators)
- Someone who masticates.
- 2009 September 6, Cathal Kelly, “Will a gossip king's invites dry up?”, in Toronto Star[1]:
- 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.
- 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller[2]:
- 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.
- A machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people.
- A machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.
Latin edit
Verb edit
masticātor
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French masticateur.
Noun edit
masticator n (plural masticatori)
Declension edit
Declension of masticator
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) masticator | masticatorul | (niște) masticatori | masticatorile |
genitive/dative | (unui) masticator | masticatorului | (unor) masticatori | masticatorilor |
vocative | masticatorule | masticatorilor |