Masticator

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who masticates.

    "If we can take the liberty of reducing Govani's clever phrasing and paper-thin beards to plain English, Linda Evangelista is a simpleton, Margaret Atwood is a pretentious bore and Angelina Jolie is a goat-like masticator."

  2. 2
    A machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people.
  3. 3
    A machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.

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"If we can take the liberty of reducing Govani's clever phrasing and paper-thin beards to plain English, Linda Evangelista is a simpleton, Margaret Atwood is a pretentious bore and Angelina Jolie is a goat-like masticator."

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