camouflager

Updated: April 30, 2025

"Come on, Ned," said Tom, after a moment or two of silent contemplation of Eradicate. "I don't know what this cheerful camouflager of mine is talking about, but we'll have to go to see, I suppose. You say you have shut some one up in Boomerang's stable, Rad?" "Yes, sah, Massa Tom, dat's whut I's gone an done." "And you say he's a German?"

Victor [pseud.] Appleton - Tom Swift and His War Tank, or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam

Their use is simple and regular and we should have no difficulty in appending them to any verb or to any adjective, however recent in origin. From a verb to camouflage we may form the noun camouflager "one who camouflages," from an adjective jazzy proceeds with perfect ease the noun jazziness. It is different with height and depth.

Edward Sapir - Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech