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Masticatory vs Masticator - What's the difference?

masticatory | masticator |

As nouns the difference between masticatory and masticator

is that masticatory is something chewed, originally as a medicine, now typically for pleasure or to increase the flow of saliva while masticator is someone who masticates.

As an adjective masticatory

is of, or relating to mastication.

masticatory

English

Noun

(masticatories)
  • Something chewed, originally as a medicine, now typically for pleasure or to increase the flow of saliva.
  • *, II.5.1.iv:
  • *:Sneezing, masticatories , and nasals are generally received.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, or relating to mastication.
  • Used for chewing.

    • masticator

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who masticates.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=September 6, author=Cathal Kelly, title=Will a gossip king's invites dry up?, work=Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=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 . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1850, author=William Cullen Bryant, title=Letters of a Traveller, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}
  • A machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people.
  • A machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.
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