Hyphenator

Origin

hyphenate + -or

Full definition of hyphenator

Noun

1. One who, or that which, hyphenates.
• October 7, 2007, Charles Mcgrath, Death-Knell. Or Death Knell., 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.”