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▪ I. oner, n. slang or colloq.|ˈwʌnə(r)|
Also one-er.
[f. one + -er1.]
1. slang. A person or thing of a unique or very remarkable kind; esp. a person preeminently addicted to or expert at something; a prime one.
1840Dickens Old C. Shop lviii, Miss Sally's sich a one-er for that. 1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. iii, You are a wunner for bottling the swipes. 1862Thackeray Philip (1869) II. xvi. 240 You should see her eat; she is such a oner at eating. 1884G. Allen Philistia III. 279 You always were a one-er you know.
b. spec. A heavy blow.
1861E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter x. I. 230 ‘What's the matter?’ ‘Oh, I've got it at last—such a onener—clean off my legs—first blood—first knock down—everything.’ 1885G. Allen Babylon iii, And then paternal feeling overcame him, and he caught Hiram such a onener on his ears as he flattered himself that boy wouldn't be likely to forgit.
2. colloq. Something consisting of, denoted by, or in some way characterized by the number one. spec. one pound; one hundred pounds.
1889Pall Mall G. 19 Oct. 6/1 His figures..run to anything between a fiver and two or three hundred oners. 1950Austral. Police Jrnl. Apr. 116 One-r, {pstlg}1. 1962Parker & Allerton Courage of his Convictions iv. i. 154 A one-er for the Guv'nor, and fifty each for me and George here, that's cut price. Two hundred all told, how's that? 1969I. & P. Opie Children's Games vii. 229 When one conker breaks another into pieces so that nothing remains on the string, the winning conker becomes a ‘one-er’. Ibid. viii. 251 He may shout a number like ‘a oner’, this means that the rest of the team have to jump over the person's back from the line, taking only one step. 1970G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard viii. 225 Worth a oner to you. 1974H. R. F. Keating Underside xxii. 218 You'd pay me five sovereign?.. Five golden oners?
▪ II. † ˈoner, v. Obs. rare.
[f. L. onerāre: see below; cf. exoner.]
trans. To burden: = onerate.
1545St. Papers Hen. VIII, V. 409 Who be extreme in takinge of gressoms, and oneringe of rentes. 1545Joye Exp. Dan. viii. T j, Behold with how few single pure and easye institucyons Christ ordened & not onered his churche. |