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▪ I. stoner1|ˈstəʊnə(r)| Also 4 staner. [f. stone v. + -er1.] One who stones or pelts with stones (esp. so as to kill).
a1350Stephen 217 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 30 Saul, þat þe staners clothes held. c1440Promp. Parv. 477/1 Stonare, or he þat stonythe..lapidator. 1623Bingham Xenophon 99 The stoners of the Ambassadors. 1680C. Nesse Church Hist. 359 With this word, as with a stone, he knockt those stoners, for such they would have been to the woman, on the head. 1867Liddon in J. O. Johnston Life & Lett. v. (1904) 110 The stoners of St. Stephen.
▸ slang (orig. U.S.). A habitual drug user, esp. a heavy marijuana user; (hence) a person with a lifestyle considered typical of a heavy marijuana user, characterized as aimless or indolent (cf. slacker n.).
1971E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 177 Stoner.., person who takes and gets high on drugs frequently. 1979A. Lyons Castles in Fire (1983) 179 They were careless. Stoners usually are. 1986San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 24 May b1 He was in all easy classes, the ones stoners take. 1994Face Aug. 64/1 The thing is you don't want to be marketed to, the whole Generation X thing is that you don't want to be told, ‘Hey, you're a stoner, come to this movie’. 2003Company June 178/2 My boyfriend is a real stoner and it's driving me mad. He just wants to stay in and get stoned with his friends and when we do go out he's so dopey, it's pointless. ▪ II. stoner2|ˈstəʊnə(r)| [f. stone n. + -er1.] †1. One skilled in precious stones: = lapidary n. 1 b. Obs.
c1440Gesta Rom. lxv. 286 (Harl. MS.) Gwido..went to a stoner, and saide to hym, ‘good man, I pray þe tell me þe vertu of þis ston.’ 2. In comb. with prefixed numeral: A person weighing, or a horse carrying, (so many) stone (stone n. 14).
1862G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar iii. 264 Your nags is hardly thirteen-stoners, sir—not in a country like this. 1896Conan Doyle Rodney Stone xvii. 293 ‘Your man brought the scale down at thirteen-three and Harrison at thirteen-eight.’ ‘He's a fifteen-stoner from the loins upwards’, cried Dutch Sam. |