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hyphenator

noun

Etymology

From hyphenate + -or.

  1. derived from ὑφέν
  2. formed as hyphenate — “hyphen + -ate”
  3. suffixed as hyphenator — “hyphenate + or”

Definitions

  1. One who, or that which, hyphenates.

    • The greatest hyphenator ever was Shakespeare (or Shak-speare in some contemporary spellings) because he was so busy adding new words, many of them compounds, to English: “sea-change,” “leap-frog,” “bare-faced,” “fancy-free.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hyphenator. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA