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Drawcansir|drɔːˈkænsə(r)|
Also ˈDraw-can-sir.
Name of a blustering, bragging character in Villiers's burlesque ‘The Rehearsal’, who in the last scene is made to enter a battle and to kill all the combatants on both sides: hence allusively, and attrib.[Formed as a parody on Almanzor in Dryden's Conquest of Granada, perhaps intended to suggest drawing a can of liquor (see the references to his drinking capacity in Act iv. sc. i. ‘Enter Drawcansir’).] 1672Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Rehearsal iv. i. (Arb.) 95 J. Pray, Mr. Bayes, who is that Drawcansir? B. Why, Sir, a fierce Hero, that frights his Mistriss..and does what he will, without regard to good manners, justice, or numbers. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. I. 42 But it is a brave thing to be the Ecclesiastical Draw-Can-Sir. 1690Locke Govt. ii. xvi. §177 They that found absolute monarchy upon the Title of the Sword, make their Heroes..arrant Draw-can-Sirs, and forget that they had any Officers and Soldiers. 1711Addison Spect. No. 16 ⁋3, I have so much of a Drawcansir in me, that I shall pass over a single foe to charge whole armies. 1761Colman Jealous Wife Prol. (L.), Drawcansir death had rag'd without controul: Here the drawn dagger, there the poison'd bowl. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 562 Such a Drawcansir, as to cut down both friend and foe. 1797J. Warton in Wilkes' Corr. (1805) IV. 335 One shall hardly see such drawcansir-work. 1800Rival Bards in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1801) IV. 394 Gifford..Now struts a Drawcansir with hideous stare! 1880McCarthy Own Times IV. xlviii. 6 Mr. Layard..a very Drawcansir of political debate, a swashbuckler, and soldado of Parliamentary Conflict. |