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twicer colloq. or slang.|ˈtwaɪsə(r)|
[f. twice.]
1. a. One who does something twice; esp. one who attends church (in quot. 1679, one who conducts public worship) twice on a Sunday.
1679V. Alsop Mel. Inquirend. ii. i. 170 What if a thousand or two more of Ministers were silenced..? What is Lectures were proscribed, private Conferences interdicted, and your Twicers suspended? 1902Onlooker's Note-Bk. xxiii. 180 In his [Gladstone's] view every respectable person should be a ‘Twice-er’. 1904Times, Lit. Supp. 4 Mar. 68/1 The prodigious proportion of absentees from church or chapel and the small number of ‘twicers’.
b. Printers' slang. (See quot.)
1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab., Twicer, a term of contempt for a man who professes to work both at case and press.
2. Something of twice the usual force or value.
1857A. Mayhew Paved w. Gold iii. xiv, He expressed his delight by exclaiming, ‘Here's a start! a reg'lar twicer!’
3. A crook, liar, cheat; a deceitful or cunning individual.
1924Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Twicer, a deceitful fellow. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words & Phrases 292 Twicer, a cunning fellow. 1949E. Wingfield-Stratford King Charles & King Pym iv. ix. 262 The recent dismissal..of that elderly twicer, Sir Harry Vane. |