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flincher|ˈflɪnʃə(r)|
[f. flinch v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who hangs back or gives way, esp. at a crisis or in time of danger, etc.; one who shrinks from (an undertaking, etc.).
1598Florio, Taccognatore..a conycatcher, a micher, a flincher, a paltrer. 1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 272 All the flinchers that forsooke him. 1664H. More Ep. 7 Churches iv. (1669) 51 That sharp reprehension of Flinchers from the Faith. 1760C. Johnston Chrysal II. ii. xiv, I am no flincher; I never say aye when I mean no. a1834Lamb Final Mem. ix. Wks. (1865) 295 In society, as in politics, he was no flincher.
transf.1631Celestina xviii. 180 Gold and Silver will not tarry with mee; they are flinchers.
2. One who passes the bottle; one who abstains from drinking.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Jas. i. 27 He is counted a flyncher that foloweth sobrietie. a1668Davenant Siege v. Dram. Wks. 1873 IV. 427 What! a flincher? Quaff it off, Mulciber. a1748C. Pitt Ep. to Mr. Spence 94 The sot..Swears at the flinchers who refuse their glass. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey v. iv, A German student is no flincher at the bottle. |