Touretter

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Etymology[edit]

Tourettes +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

Touretter (plural Touretters)

  1. A person who has Tourette syndrome.
    • 2012, Nick Haslam, Psychology in the Bathroom:
      Less frequently, Touretters may also perform obscene actions suchas making sexual gestures (copropraxia) or writing obscene material (coprographia) (Freeman et al., 2009).
    • 2013, Melissa Mohr, Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing:
      Touretters also occasionally suffer from copropraxia, which involves obscene gestures such as giving the finger or crotch grabbing, and coprographia, the urge to make obscene drawings.

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