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单词 aginer
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aginern.

Brit. /əˈɡɪnə/, U.S. /əˈɡɪnər/
Forms: 1900s– agginer, 1900s– ag'in'er, 1900s– aginer, 1900s– aginner.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: English agin , again prep., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < agin, regional and colloquial variant of again prep. (compare forms at that entry) + -er suffix1.
U.S. colloquial.
A person who is against something; one who opposes a proposal, course of action, point of view, etc. Also more generally: a person having a habitually negative attitude; one who opposes any change as a matter of principle. Cf. againster n.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > opponent > one opposed to some person or thing
opponent1658
virtuoso-mastix1671
anti1814
warrer1836
against1843
reactionist1902
aginer1905
againster1919
nay-sayer1925
1905 Westminster (Philadelphia) 8 Apr. 6/2 We [sc. the Presbyterian Church] have not been an ‘aginer’ for a year past. We are ‘for-ers’: for the Church: for the home.
1944 Post (Morgantown, W. Va.) 9 Feb. 6/2 A grab bag for all the aginners in the country.
1953 Sun (Baltimore) 27 Aug. 85/2 Clare Hoffman..rallied some die-hards from both parties against it... The committee's disapproval was pure, instinctive obstructionism. Clare is a natural ‘ag'in'er’.
1990 P. Taylor See how they Run i. 20 On election day..many more people voted ‘against’ than ‘for’—a pattern that has become the norm in presidential elections... Jeane Shilling..captured the ‘agginer’ mind-set exquisitely.
2005 C. Shirley Reagan's Revol. xi. 244 Wallace... had always been just an ‘aginner’ and never really proposed solutions to the problems he identified in America.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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