doctorern.
/ˈdɒkt(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈdɑkt(ə)rər/ 1. Chiefly colloquial. A person who administers medicine or gives medical treatment; a doctor. Cf. doctor v. 3a, 3b. Now rare.
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1804 Lady's Mag. Apr. 203/1 It was..four months before I had any practice, except the extracting of a tooth from a corn-fed girl..who used to look wistfully at me, and ask, if the doctorer did not think the tooth-ach a sign of love?
1848 E. Lloyd Manuscripts from Diary of Physician I. 209/1 He's some great doctorer from London.
1910 ‘P. R. Dash’ Cook-ed-up Peary-odd-ical Dict. (end of letter C) They say Cook is a skilled physician. Even Peary thinks he is something of a doctorer.
2012 @amotherlife 11 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 7 Sept. 2021) I should be a doctorer! I knew it was asthma!
2. A person who falsifies, adulterates, or tampers with something. Frequently with modifier indicating what has been falsified, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > [noun] > forger, falsifier
false writer1440
falsifier1532
forger1552
falsary1579
pseudograph1623
pseudographer1645
doctorer1817
cooker1849
1817 T. F. Dibdin Bibliogr. Decameron II. 517 He was a great Doctorer (as they call it) of old books.
1869 J. L. Denman Pure Wine & How to know It vi. 18 (heading) How the wine doctorers make new wine old.
1939 Daily Mail 1 May 18/6 The wicket doctorers and the arch-priests of dope have been rapped on the knuckles by the M.C.C.
1984 Oak Ridge National Lab. Rev. No. 2 40/2 The authors also mention a number of other more recent data doctorers, figure fudgers, and experiment falsifiers.
2017 @gwillie1960 20 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 7 Sept. 2021) Love to see a wash out in the last test. Serve the pitch doctorers right.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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