concoct
verb (used with object)
to prepare or make by combining ingredients, especially in cooking.
concoctor
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a word derived from
concoct.
Example Sentences
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Academician Bergen Evans, an English professor at Northwestern who doubles as the question concoctor for The $64,000 Question, takes the easygoing view that language is what its users make of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
This thing," I exclaimed, "is a contemptible falsehood—a poor hoax—the lees of the invention of some pitiable penny-a-liner—of some wretched concoctor of accidents in Cocaigne.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe
Hum.,’—abbreviation of humbug—or, as their concoctor used to call them, ‘Humbugeraneous Pills.’
From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by William Powell Frith
Turtle soup, seasoned with herbs, and a handful of shell-fish thrown in, gained high praise for its concoctor, Neb.
From The Mysterious Island by Stephen W. White
It makes him the easy victim of a plot which would otherwise only have ensnared its concoctor.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various
