单词 | fetcher |
释义 | fetchern. 1. a. One who or that which fetches, in various senses of the verb. Also in phrase fetcher and carrier, and in combination, as water-fetcher, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > bringing > [noun] > fetching > one who fetcher1552 reacher1598 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer > parasite clienta1393 lick-dishc1440 maunche present1440 scambler?a1513 smell-feast1519 parasite1539 hanger-on1549 parasitaster1552 waiter at the table1552 lick-trencher1571 hang-by1579 shadow1579 trencher-fly1590 trencher-friend1590 fawnguest1592 pot-hunter1592 lick-spigot1599 trencherman1599 shark1600 tub-hunter1600 zany1601 lick-box1611 by-hangera1626 cosherer1634 shirk1639 panlicker1641 clientelary1655 tantony1659 led friend1672 sponger1677 fetcher and carrier1751 myrmidon1800 trencher-licker1814 onhanger1821 tag-tail1835 sponge1838 lick-ladle1849 lick-platter1853 sucker1856 freeloader1933 bludger1938 ligger1977 joyrider1990 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Fetcher of water. Aquarius. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Faiseur de soubresaults, a fetcher of gamboldes, a tumbler. 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Bvij The fetcher of Euridice from hell. 1751 T. Gray Let. 20 Feb. in Corr. (1971) I. 343 You will take me for a mere poet, and a fetcher and carrier of singsong. a1863 W. M. Thackeray Mr. & Mrs. Berry ii The poor fellow has been employed..in the same office of fetcher and carrier. 1877 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 6) VI. vi. 97 The wood and the water fetchers went out. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > other officials non-regentc1447 taxer1532 subprincipal1562 scrutator1580 Master of Glomerya1591 orator1592 schoolkeeper?c1601 curator1612 subwarden1622 outrider1664 curator1669 domus1759 taxator1831 fetcher1890 1890 P. H. Brown George Buchanan ii. 27 Lads proceeding to Cambridge from the remoter districts went in a body under a ‘fetcher’. 1892 Q. Rev. Jan. 24 The students..were collected by ‘fetchers’ brought to Oxford, &c. c. Something which ‘fetches’ or attracts. Cf. fetch v. 4. U.S. ΚΠ 1909 R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 83 But this business was sure a fetcher to me. 1909 R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 146 Well, that was a fetcher. 2. With adverbs, as fetcher in. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates prickera1382 stirrerc1384 enticerc1386 exciter1387 risera1398 solicitor1412 erterc1440 prompter1440 stirrer?1533 motionerc1535 author1546 onsetter1549 stinger1552 setter-on1560 incentor1570 incensora1575 mover1578 whetter1579 out-hounder1596 hounder1597 egger on1598 inciter1598 instigator1598 urger1598 motive1600 fomenter1607 inflamer1609 fetcher in?1611 provokera1616 putter-ona1616 monitor1616 spurrer1632 outputter1639 poddera1640 commoter1646 impulsor1653 shaker and mover1874 agent provocateur1888 impeller1889 sooler1935 spark plug1941 ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads i. 167 Of fight (the fetcher in of this) My hands haue most share. 1660 J. Howell Lex. Tetraglotton Dict. Fetcher in, ameneur. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1552 |
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