Punctuator

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who punctuates, as in writing.

    "He was a sloppy punctuator, often leaving out commas and confusing colons with semicolons."

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"He was a sloppy punctuator, often leaving out commas and confusing colons with semicolons."

Etymology

From punctuate + -or.

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