| 释义 |
deferrer|dɪˈfɜːrə(r)|
[f. defer v.1 + -er1.]
One who defers; a delayer, postponer.
1552Huloet, Deferrer, cunctator. 1559Willock Let. to Crossraguel in Keith Hist. Ch. Scotl. App. 198 Quhilk of both is the Differrer of the Caus? a1637B. Jonson tr. Horace's Art Poetry 245 A great deferrer, long in hope, grown numb With sloth, yet greedy still of what's to come. 1880G. Meredith Trag. Com. xiv. (1892) 200 One of those delicious girls in the New Comedy..called The Postponer, The Deferrer, or, as we might say, The To-Morrower. |