despondern.
/dɪˈspɒndə/ rare.
One who desponds.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > dejected or gloomy person
unhappy hooka1529
drooper1577
disconsolate1631
desponder1689
mope1693
moper1721
despondent1812
misery1888
crape-hanger1921
Dismal Desmond1926
Dismal Jimmy1927
crêpe-hanger1930
Eeyore1932
1689 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 288 More could scarce be said to encourage desponders.
1737 J. Swift Proposal Badges to Beggars 16 I am a Desponder in my Nature.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.1689- to put one's best foot first
- to put one's best foot forward
- to put one's best leg first
- to put one's best leg forward
- to put one's cards on the table
- to put one's chips on
- to put one's come hither on a person
- to put one's eyes together
- to put one's face against
- to put one's feet under another's mahogany
- to put one's feet under mahogany
- to put one's feet up
- to put one's finger in a hole
- to put one's finger in one's eye
- to put one's finger in the dyke
- to put one's finger in the fire
- to put one's finger on
- to put one's foot
- to put one's foot down
- to put one's foot in it
- to put one's foot in one's mouth
- to put one's foot into it
- to put one's foot to the floor
- to put one's foot upon
- to put one's hand in