dismisser

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

dismiss +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

dismisser (plural dismissers)

  1. One who dismisses.
    • 2008 May 7, Bill Keller, “The Making of Yeltsin, His Boldness and Flaws”, in New York Times[1]:
      For years after Yeltsin crashed onto the political scene, the Gorbachev-infatuated West was overwhelmingly dismissive. Mr. Colton, a professor of government and director of Russian studies at Harvard and the author of a grand history of the city of Moscow, cops to being one of those early dismissers.