Hyphenator
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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.”"
Example
More examples"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.”"
Etymology
From hyphenate + -or.