单词 | twicer |
释义 | twicern. colloquial or slang. 1. a. One who does something twice; esp. one who attends church (in quot. 1678, one who conducts public worship) twice on a Sunday. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [noun] > person performing > twice on Sunday twicer1678 society > faith > worship > [noun] > worshipper > attending twice on Sunday twicer1902 1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. i. 142 What if a Thousand or two more of Ministers were silenced..? what if Lectures were proscribed? private Conferences interdicted? and your Twicers suspended? 1902 Onlooker's Note-bk. xxiii. 180 In his [Gladstone's] view every respectable person should be a ‘Twice-er’. 1904 Times, Lit. Supp. 4 Mar. 68/1 The prodigious proportion of absentees from church or chapel and the small number of ‘twicers’. b. Printers' slang. (See quot. 1888.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > worker at case and press twicer1888 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 144 Twicer, a term of contempt for a man who professes to work both at case and press. 2. Something of twice the usual force or value. ΚΠ 1857 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold iii. xiv He expressed his delight by exclaiming, ‘Here's a start! a reg'lar twicer!’ 3. A crook, liar, cheat; a deceitful or cunning individual. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > one who deceives swikec1000 wielerOE adderOE knavec1275 treacherc1290 guiler1303 gabbera1325 tricharda1327 faitoura1340 jugglera1340 beswiker1340 wernard1362 knackerc1380 beguilera1382 deceiver1382 illusor1382 deceivant1393 fob1393 falsea1400 mocker?c1450 feature14.. deceptor1484 seductor1490 bullera1500 troker?a1500 craftera1529 circumventorc1540 bobber1542 cloyner?1550 illuder?1550 tricker1550 double-dealer1567 treacherer1571 falsary1573 abuser1579 falser1579 treachetour1590 deluder1592 ignis fatuus1592 foolmonger1593 prestigiator1595 aguiler1598 baffler1606 cog-foist1606 feaguer1610 guile-man1614 hocus-pocus1624 colt1632 hoodwink1638 blindfoldera1649 napper1653 cheat1664 fooler1677 underdealer1682 circumvenerc1686 chincher1688 dodger1698 nickum1699 sheep-shearer1699 trickster1711 bilker1717 trickologist1723 taker-in1776 bilk1790 duper1792 Yorkshire bite1801 intake1808 gammoner1819 doer1840 delusionist1841 fiddler1857 snide1874 hoodwinker1884 tanger1886 take-down1888 tiddlywinker1893 wangler1912 frost1914 twicer1924 lurkman1945 jive-ass1964 skanker1973 1924 Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Twicer, a deceitful fellow. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 292 Twicer, a cunning fellow. 1949 E. Wingfield-Stratford King Charles & King Pym iv. ix. 262 The recent dismissal..of that elderly twicer, Sir Harry Vane. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1678 |
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