单词 | quaverer |
释义 | quaverern. A person who quavers. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gringuenoteur, A warbler, shaker, quauerer. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. vi. 106 The Rowsers, the Tearers, the Ratlers, the Quaverers, the Whizzers, the Fuzzers, the Squeekers. 1738 Mod. Englishman 10 Who now the Value of a Quaverer knows? 1802 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1803) 6 222 Italia sends us home Three quaverers together. 1955 J. M. Cohen tr. F. Rabelais Hist. Gargantua & Pantagruel v. xix. 672 This poor sandal of a Quaverer [sc. a member of the order of Quavering Friars] admits that he is never so beshitten with lechery as in time of Lent. 1984 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Jrnl. 18 May a15/3 He's backed by a Democratic army of poll-watching quaverers who shudder at the thought of Reagan..bad-mouthing them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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