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English
Etymology
From defecate + -or.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɛfɪˌkeɪtə(ɹ)/, /ˈdɛfəˌkeɪtə(ɹ)/
Noun
defecator (plural defecators)
- One who defecates.
Defecator, may everything turn out okay so that you can leave this place.
1999 February 12, Chuck Shepherd, “News of the Weird”, in Chicago Reader:Number two in the news: In January police in New Waterford, Nova Scotia, were investigating a suspected serial defecator who had soiled three locations around town during the holiday season, including the floor of a recreation center.
- (archaic) That which cleanses or purifies; especially, an apparatus for removing impurities from juices and syrups.
1884, Peter Collier, Sorghum, page 293:After the preliminary filtering or settling of the juice, it is taken into the defecator, and there receives the treatment with lime.
Latin
Verb
dēfecātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of dēfecō