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sporter|ˈspɔətə(r)|
Also 6 Sc. sportour.
[f. sport v. + -er2. Cf. disporter.]
†1. Sc. One who amuses or diverts others; a buffoon or jester. Obs.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 199 He tuk sic delite in singaris, sportouris, and menstralis. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 14 To seik out..all persounis, minstrelis, gemsteris, sportouris, gyuen till ydlenes. Ibid. 30 Be a certane sportour [L. morione] he was spyet.
2. One who is given to, or takes part in, sport of any kind; a gamester; a sportsman or sporting man.
1611Cotgr., Iouëur, a player, gamester; dallier, sporter. 1658E. Phillips Myst. Love 89 There was a Gallant in the Town, a brave and jolly Sporter. 1684D'Urfey Races at New-market in Bagford Ball. (1876) 80 Run and endeavour to bubble the sporters. 1709Brit. Apollo No. 44. 2/2 The Sporters in Venus's Garden. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. viii, The beast [a horse] was too keen a sporter to choose any other way than that which the stag followed. 1768Woman of Honor III. 36 The great sporters at the races have no..idea of keeping up the breed of horses. 1810Splendid Follies III. 192 This illustrious-hearted young sporter.
b. A sporting dog.
1825Loudon Encycl. Agric. §6643 The trouble occasioned to the master will be trifling, because connected with a pleasing employ to him as a sportsman, and who will thus have his own sporters for nothing.
c. As a moth-name.
1832J. Rennie Consp. Butterfl. & Moths 81 The Sporter (Diphthera ludifica).
†3. transf. = sport n.1 6 b. Obs. rare.
1723P. Blair Pharmaco-Bot. i. 16 These [varieties] may justly be called Sporters or Strollers, so many Lusus Naturæ sporting themselves from more simple Colours [etc.].
4. One who trifles with something serious.
1834J. Brown Sanctification vii. 330 A sporter with my misery, he would have but tormented me before the time.
5. colloq. One who sports or wears a garment.
1892Daily News 6 July 3/6 The sporters of special blazers and dainty flannels look hardly less miserable. |