Capitalizer

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who capitalizes.

    "Meg Cabot, chronic capitalizer and reigning grande dame of teenage chick lit, has too many best-selling series to keep track of — there’s the reluctant princess in the “Princess Diaries” books, the reluctant communicator with the dead in “The Mediator,” the reluctant national hero in “All-American Girl,” and so on (at last count Cabot, at age 41, has 54 books out, a handful of them geared for grown-up girls)."

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"Meg Cabot, chronic capitalizer and reigning grande dame of teenage chick lit, has too many best-selling series to keep track of — there’s the reluctant princess in the “Princess Diaries” books, the reluctant communicator with the dead in “The Mediator,” the reluctant national hero in “All-American Girl,” and so on (at last count Cabot, at age 41, has 54 books out, a handful of them geared for grown-up girls)."

Etymology

From capitalize + -er.

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