单词 | repiner |
释义 | repinern. Now literary and somewhat archaic. A person who is discontented; a grumbler, a complainer; (later also) a person who longs discontentedly for something. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > one who complains grucchildc1230 grutchera1250 groinera1382 musera1382 plainerc1400 plaintiff?a1439 fretter?1504 complainant1525 complainer1526 repiner1551 grudger1552 moaner1628 grumbler1633 querulist1647 maunderer1653 growler1753 grumbletonian1773 smellfungus1807 crib-biter1809 expostulatora1834 squinny1849 groaner1876 grouser1885 squealer1889 gruntler1893 grump1900 grouch1901 screamer1902 Moaning Minnie1934 narker1937 binder1944 1551 R. Ascham Let. 23 Feb. in Wks. (1865) (modernized text) I. ii. 279 He is likely..to make..the Germans, of secret repiners, open foes. 1595 T. Bedingfield tr. N. Machiavelli Florentine Hist. iv. 91 To occasion these repiners feele the smart of their counsell. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 91 He is a scoffer, derider and repiner. 1698 E. Settle Farther Def. Dramatick Poetry 12 I fancy this strait-lac'd high Moralist Mr. Collier, is the only Repiner at Young Fashion's Felicity in the Arms of Miss Hoyden. 1750 Berkeley Max. conc. Patriotism §23 We are not to think..every splenetick repiner against a court is therefore a patriot. 1790 A. Wilson Poems 96 Heav'n..show'rs with fury dread, Tormenting Ills on the Repiner's head. 1843 Southern Lit. Messenger Mar. 190/2 The female repiners are novel-readers too; who sigh because they are not distressed damsels, lost in some thousand-miles of forest. 1897 E. W. Wilcox Three Women xi. 184 Let us teach earth's repiners to look through glad eyes. 1925 E. Paul & C. Paul tr. P. M. F. Janet Psychol. Healing I. ii. 88 It is not a religion for weaklings and repiners. 2002 West Virginia University Philol. Papers (Nexis) Sept. 92 What the repiners are truly nostalgic for, it seems, is the traditional style of oral narrative performance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1551 |
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