1. a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages; - Example: "Thomas Bowdler was a famous expurgator" [syn: expurgator, bowdlerizer, bowdleriser]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bowdlerizer
n 1: a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive
words or passages; "Thomas Bowdler was a famous expurgator"
[syn: expurgator, bowdlerizer, bowdleriser]