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pacifier|ˈpæsɪfaɪə(r)|
[f. pacify + -er1.]
1. One who or that which pacifies or appeases.
1533More Apol. xiii. 94 Yf this pacyfyer of this dyuysyon wyl say that this is nothing lyke the present mater. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. xxxii. 191 It looks as if he withheld them for occasional pacifiers. 1846Trench Mirac. v. (1862) 169 The pacifier of the tumults and the discords in the outward world. 1956H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) ii. 12 Telling as if, secure in morphine or other pacifiers,..we found in the show that forgotten moral thickness for which so many of us were sick. 1969Daily Tel. 10 Nov. 2 By 1990 most of us..will be taking synthetic mood modifiers, pacifiers and general comforters.
2. A baby's dummy. U.S.
1904F. Crissey Tattlings Retired Politician 367, I put away my teething ring and baby ‘pacifier’ several years ago. 1949M. Mead Male & Female xiii. 271 The very modern pediatrician may recommend a pacifier—the same old pacifier that still lingers on the back-street, in the little..drug stores. 1960Encounter Mar. 19/2 Minnie Foote's baby got held up to see and dropped his pacifier in the box. 1963M. McCarthy Group xiv. 321 Norine removed the pacifier from the baby's mouth. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 4 July 5-A/3 The government has closed the books on a case that started with the choking death of a five-month-old boy and ended with the recall of more than 100,000 baby pacifiers. |