n. A Wikipedia account holder who uses acquired privileges to exert dictatorial powers over contributors. Wikitators frequently throw away factual contributions from subject matter experts that the wikitator is personally ignorant about, using their account privileges to enforce their will.
I corrected a mistake in the Wikipedia entry for where I live but some wikitator threw out my work and then banned me when I tried to fix it again.
(i) A Theoretical Physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton who specializes in String Theory. Widely regarded as Einstein's successor, he is unquestionably a genius.
(ii) A person of super-human intellect.
(iii) A synonym for genius.
- B+ in Calculus? No Ed Witten, but not bad.
- Ha! Look at Joey trying get Christie's number. Doesn't take an Ed Witten to tell him that she's out of his league.
- Oxford is full of mini Ed Wittens.
A real smart dude. One of the founding fathers of string theory or superstring theory or M-Theory or some theory involving strings. Nearly became an economist, but saw the light.
A person who injects witticisms into a conversation. Usually speaks in an English accent, and his witty remarks are often met with generous "Oh hoh hoh"s.
The witticist can only be defeated by ignoring his clever remarks, which will frustrate him greatly. However, if you attempt to engage a witticist head-on, you are sure to be out-witted by him.