idiotor
nounEtymology Blend of idiot + editor.
- Echoes of Mallock's arguments are still in the air, and every time some "idiotor" of a great daily wants to write a rant against the “Reds” he grabs his well-worn copy of Mallock, breathes in some of its inspiration and then blows it out into a long-winded, big-worded “idiotorial” on Socialism.1922, August Claessens, The Trinity of Plunder, page 20:
- As a rule the leader of the separate school drive is some ecclesiastical clown, some pusillanimous pedagogue, some piecounter politician (more spiritous than spiritual), some real estate dealer who has risen above “the mired mass” by robbing the “mired mass,” and shoving them farther in the mire, or some editor (idiotor), long on inspiration and short on information.1925, The Messenger - Volume 7, page 197:
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- The world is full of second third and fourth rate idiotors, I mean editors/rejectors, who have forgotten how to read because of an excess of consummation.1998, Larry McCaffery, Thomas Hartl, Doug Rice, Federman A to X-X-X-X: a recyclopedic narrative, page 146: