idiotor

English

Etymology

Blend of idiot +‎ editor

Noun

idiotor (plural idiotors)

1. (informal, humorous) An editor who makes idiotic decisions or writes idiotorials.
   • 1922, August Claessens, The Trinity of Plunder, page 20:

     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.

   • 1925, The Messenger - Volume 7, page 197:

     As 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.

   • 1998, Larry McCaffery, Thomas Hartl, Doug Rice, Federman A to X-X-X-X: a recyclopedic narrative, page 146:

     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.

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