masticator

English

Noun

masticator (plural masticators)

1. Someone who masticates.
   • 2009 September 6, Cathal Kelly, “Will a gossip king's invites dry up?”, in Toronto Star‎:

     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.

   • 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller‎:

     We encourage their singing as much as we can," said the brother of the proprietor, himself a diligent masticator of the weed, who attended us, and politely explained to us the process of making plug tobacco; "we encourage it as much as we can, for the boys work better while singing.

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

Latin

Verb

masticātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of masticō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French masticateur.

Noun

masticator n (plural masticatori)

1. masticator

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	masticator	masticatorul		masticatori	masticatorile
genitive-dative	masticator	masticatorului		masticatori	masticatorilor
vocative	masticatorule			masticatorilor