Saturday 9 January 2016

Murdererer

Murdererer: adjective. To be murdererer is to have murdered more people than someone else. The word murdererer is not to be confused with the word murderouser, as the former pertains to actual killings carried out, whereas the latter is concerned with the mere lust for doing so. So, whereas we would call Shakespeare's Tybalt murderouser than Romeo, we would definitely call Romeo murdererer.

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