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单词 pocketer
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pocketern.

Brit. /ˈpɒkᵻtə/, U.S. /ˈpɑkədər/
Forms: see pocket v. and -er suffix1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pocket v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < pocket v. + -er suffix1.
A person who pockets or appropriates something (esp. money).
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the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > [noun] > appropriation > one who or that which > one who
swallower1548
impropriator1631
pocketer1824
appropriator1840
hogger1905
1824 W. Cobbett Hist. Protestant Reformation vi. §176 The tyrant was..the great pocketter of this species of plunder.
1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 501 Nominal editor of the work, but regular pocketer of the salary.
a1946 C. Carswell Lying Awake (1950) i. ii. 26 There was Nero..a bigamist of the most flagrant sort and a great pocketer of collections.
2000 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 23 Apr. (Final ed.) (Telegraph section) 1 a Edwards has hardly run away from his image as a pocketer of payoffs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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