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belittler

noun

Etymology

From belittle + -er.

  1. derived from *lewd-✻ — “to bend, crouch, duck”
  2. inherited from *lūtaną✻ — “to bow down, lout”
  3. inherited from *lūtil✻ — “little”
  4. inherited from lȳtel
  5. inherited from litel
  6. prefixed as belittle — “be + little”
  7. suffixed as belittler — “belittle + er”

Definitions

  1. One who belittles.

    • He thought out his brisk repartees purely for his own satisfaction and at leisure, and would have blushed to answer his belittlers in the open.
    • “I wonder how harmless such people are? To what extent civilization is retarded by the laughing jack-asses, the empty-minded belittlers? […]”

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