hyphenator

English

Etymology

From hyphenate +‎ -or.

Noun

hyphenator (plural hyphenators)

1. One who, or that which, hyphenates.
   • 2007 October 7, Charles Mcgrath, “Death-Knell. Or Death Knell.”, in New York Times‎:

     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.”

Anagrams

• hypaethron, hypothenar