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Definition of nointer in English: nointernoun ˈnɔɪntə Australian informal (especially in Tasmania) a troublesome or annoying person or thing, in particular a mischievous child. we laughed hysterically and generally behaved like puerile nointers Example sentencesExamples - Older generations typically criticize nointers, for their clothes, the music they listen to, the way they speak and the things they do.
- Did you ever see such a nointer in all your born days?
- “You come with me, you young nointer,” said Rudge.
- Hush, hush my Boy, you don't want t' be a Nointer and give the game away.
- "Mum's a Virgo too and I'm a..." She looks to me for the answer. “A nointer,” I laugh.
- Having to deal with other little nointers might give him more of an idea of how negative behaviour impacts upon others.
- Mrs Hoare, of Watlington, calls her grandchild a "'nointer" when she is troublesome and restless.
- Nervous systems are tricky little nointers!
- When little boys were being troublesome, here they were called "nointers".
- As for the kids, could getting the little nointers trackside be a way of propping up the state's struggling racing industry?
Origin Late 19th century: originally English dialect, from anointer ‘person who deserves an anointing’, i.e. a beating. |