vapourervaporern.
/ˈveɪp(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈveɪpərər/ 1. One who vapours; a bragging, grandiloquent, or fantastical talker.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boaster
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Lymantriidae > member of genus Orgyia
vapourer moth1782
vapourer1816
tussock1819
tussock-moth1826
1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 223 This pusillanimous and frothy generation of vapourers..are the greatest enemies to..our Religion.
1665 S. Pepys Diary 3 Dec. (1972) VI. 316 A fortunate, though a passionate and but weak man as to policy..and one that is the greatest vapourer in the world.
1771 J. W. Fletcher Checks in Wks. (1795) III. 238 That vapourer in favour of your perseverance, fairly and consistently builds on..the foundation of the Calvinists.
1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. 214 We might show how applicable to certain rhetorical metaphysical vaporers the descriptions are.
1843 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 10 344 Not one of your old serene metaphysical vapourers.
2. vapourer moth n. a British moth of the genus Orgyia, esp. O. antiqua, the male of which flies with a rapid quivering motion.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Lymantriidae > member of genus Orgyia
vapourer moth1782
vapourer1816
tussock1819
tussock-moth1826
1782 W. Curtis Short Hist. Brown-tail Moth 6 The Phalæna Antiqua, or Vapourer Moth, which I have seen to thrive on the deadly Nightshade and poisonous Laurel.
1832 T. Brown Bk. Butterflies, Sphinxes & Moths (1834) I. 49 The following figure of the female Vapourer Moth.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. viii. 302 A crawling grub, like the female of our own Vapourer moth.
1890 E. A. Ormerod Man. Injurious Insects (ed. 2) 322 The pretty and easily distinguishable caterpillar of the Common Vapourer Moth.
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