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flinger|ˈflɪŋə(r)|
[f. fling v. + -er1.]
One who flings, in various senses of the verb. a. in intr. senses: A dancer; also, one who rushes out of. Of a horse: A kicker.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxiii. 10 Musicianis, menstralis.. callandaris, and flingaris. 1519W. Horman Vulg. xix. 170 This is a great kykar or a flyngar: and therfore I wyll nat come on his backe. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 219 Hæretickes and Schismatickes, flingers out of the Church. 1822Scott Pirate ix, ‘I suld hae minded you was a flinger and a fiddler yourself.’
b. trans. One who throws or casts. flinger out: one who casts or drives out; an expeller.
1598Florio, Piombatore..a violent flinger, a hurler. 1600J. Melvill Diary (1842) 52 Episcoporum exactor, the flinger out of bishops. 1673F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen Pref. A iij, I ought not to look on the stone, but the hand of the flinger. 1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. 1015 Were it good For any pope on earth to be a flinger Of stones against these high-niched counterfeits? |