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stifler|ˈstaɪflə(r)|
[f. stifle v.1 + -er1.]
One who or something which stifles, suffocates, smothers, suppresses, etc.
1642H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. ii. xv, You stiflers now be gone. Let fall that smoring mantle. 1829Scott Demonol. 267 Lord-keeper Guildford was also a stifler of the proceedings against witches. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop viii, My best affections have experienced, this night, a stifler. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such xviii. 347 We have to consider who are the stifled people and who the stiflers.
b. Thieves' slang. The gallows.
1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxiii, I think Handie Dandie and I may queer the stifler for all that is come and gone.
c. Mil. slang. = camouflet 1.
1836Penny Cycl. VI. 197/1 Camouflet, or Stifler. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. |