liarn.

Brit.

/ˈlʌɪə/, U.S.

/ˈlaɪ(ə)r/

Forms: Old English léogere, Northumbrian légere, Middle English li(h)ȝere, Middle English lieȝer, liare, Middle English leier, Middle English lyere, Middle English–1500s lier, (Middle English ly(e)ȝere, lyȝer, liȝer, leeȝer, leigher, liere, liyher), Middle English legher(e, ligher, lygher, lyare, Middle English–1500s Scottish lear, Middle English–1600s lyer, Middle English–1700s lyar, (1600s lyarr), 1600s– liar.

Etymology: Old English léogere (= Old High German liugari , Icelandic ljúgari ), agent-noun < léogan lie v.² See -ar suffix³, -er suffix¹ 2.

a. One who lies or tells a falsehood; an untruthful person. I'm a liar, (in trivial use) I am mistaken.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a liar

liarc950

gabbera1325

fabler1362

wernard1362

leasing-mongerc1380

false sayera1382

leasing-maker1424

leasing-bearerc1440

contriver1477

drivelard1530

falsifier1532

lie-teller1552

Ananias1572

lick-dish1575

falsificator1609

fabulist1626

cracka1640

leaser1641

commentiter1645

prevaricator1650

cracker1652

bugiarda1670

rapper1758

pseudologist1804

Tom Pepper1818

wrinkler1819

lie-monger1830

untruther1889

tale-teller1894

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > mistake [phrase] > by myself

(I) tell (also am telling) a lie1910

I'm a liar1940

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. vi. 5 Mið ðy gie gebiddas ne wosas ge suæ legeras [other versions liceteras; L. hypocritæ].

a1023 Wulfstan Homilies 79 Up arisað lease leogeras.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 13 Ne beo þu lihȝere ne for eye ne for luue.

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 333/362 A strong liare and man of false lawe.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 62 Þe lyeȝere is ylich þe dyeule þet is his uader.

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 260 (309) Auauntoure and a lyere al is on.

1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) i. xvii. 18 He..hath ben found an open lyer.

1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xx. xiv They that told yow the tales were lyers.

c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 422 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 19 Quhedir he a lele man or a lear be.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12590 Thus lytherly þo lyghers lappit þere tales.

1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Prol. f. 2^v He is ane lear, and in him yair is na verite.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G4^v Of all Writers vnder the sunne, the Poet is the least lier.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxii. §6. 547 Poets are liers, and for verses sake Will make the Gods of humane crimes partake.

a1764 R. Lloyd Fam. Epist. to J. B. in Poet. Wks. (1774) I. 96 Who are known lyars by profession.

1782 V. Knox Ess. (1819) I. ii. 12 An habitual liar..must possess a poor and pusillanimous heart.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xiv. 130 ‘Now tell me I'm a liar!’ said the honest man.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 359 You are a liar, Meletus, not believed even by yourself.

1940 Sunday Express 31 Mar. 3/5 ‘That's not my brother Sid you met in here last Thursday. Or was it Friday?’ We said we didn't remember... ‘I'm a liar. It was Wednesday.’

1972 W. Garner Ditto, Brother Rat! xv. 105 Last winter, was it? No, I'm a liar. The spring. That's right.

Proverbs.c1250 Ten Abuses in Old Eng. Misc. 184 Old mon lechur, Ȝunch mon lieȝer [2nd text lyere].1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. E.iij^v A lyer ought not to be forgetfull.a1555 H. Latimer in N. Ridley & H. Latimer Certein Conf. (1556) f. 10 Lyars hadde nede to haue goode memories.a1607 H. Chettle Trag. Hoffman (1631) sig. I2^v Lyer, lyer, licke dish.

b. the liar (Logic): the name of the paradox involved in a speaker's statement that he is lying or is a (habitual) liar; so liar paradox, paradox of the liar.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > logical fallacy > paradox > types of

the liar1871

logical paradox1904

Russell's paradox1904

Russell's antinomy1930

1871 T. M. Lindsay tr. F. Ueberweg Syst. Logic v. §77. 245 This case happens when, and only when, the truth of the judgment is itself the object of the judgment, or belongs to the object of the judgment. The ancients have empirically discovered this case, without..giving an account of its logical nature. What is called ‘The Liar’ represents it. Epimenides, the Cretan, says, all the Cretans are liars.

1906 J. N. Keynes Stud. & Exerc. Formal Logic (ed. 4) App. B. 457 The sophism known as Ψενδόμενος or The Liar.

1908 B. Russell in Amer. Jrnl. Math. 30 240 Hence his statement is false, and yet its falsehood does not imply, as that of ‘I am lying’ appeared to do, that he is making a true statement. This solves the liar.

1940 B. Russell Inq. into Meaning & Truth iv. 62 The inference from the paradox of the liar is.. as follows.

1959 E. W. Beth Found. Math. vi. xvii. 485 The natural first reaction to the liar paradox is to ascribe the contradiction to the fact that the statement involved refers to itself.

1967 Encycl. Philos. V. 46/1 But one, the Liar,..is still of great interest to us.

1970 R. L. Martin (title) The paradox of the liar.

1971 Philosophy 46 133 (heading) Tarski, Frege, and the liar paradox.

Compounds

C1. attributive or adj. Lying, deceitful.

ΚΠ

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6819 Tak þou noght wit tunge leier.

C2.

liar dice n. a gambling game resembling poker dice, in which the thrower conceals the dice thrown and sometimes declares a false score; also elliptical (in plural).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > other dice games

rafflec1405

passagec1425

treygobet1426

mumchance1528

trey-trip1564

lots?1577

novum?1577

fox-mine-host1622

in and in1630

merry main1664

snake1688

pass-dice1753

chicken hazard1781

Shaking in the Shallow1795

sequin hazard1825

chuck-a-luck1836

Newmarket1837

chicken1849

poker dice1870

under and over1890

sweat1894

crown and anchor1902

Murrumbidgee1917

beetle1936

liar dice1946

Yahtzee1957

1946 J. Scarne On Dice (ed. 2) xvii. 386 Liar or Doubting Dice. A popular game on transpacific liners and in the Far East, it is now gaining rapidly in popularity in the United States.

1956 M. McMinnies Flying Fox i. iv. 55 Everybody was round the bar playing liar dice.

1959 R. Kirkbride Tamiko v. 37 ‘Which do you play, Balin?’ ‘Which?’ ‘Liars, Horses, Cameroon—.’ ‘I don't play dice.’

1966 O. Norton School of Liars i. 2 I spent two months in graduating from the empty lounge to the bar, two more in..reaching the inner group, the liar-dice school.

1966 O. Norton School of Liars ii. 23 We sat there playing liars until twenty past two.

1971 C. Bonington Annapurna South Face ix. 107 After the meal we played liar dice or Scrabble, with our tape-recorder blasting out music in the background.

liar's bench n. (see quot. 1859).

ΚΠ

1859 Nares's Gloss. Liars'-bench, a place in St. Paul's Cathedral in the sixteenth century, so called because it was stated that the disaffected made appointments there.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	liar
释义	liarn. Brit. /ˈlʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈlaɪ(ə)r/ Forms: Old English léogere, Northumbrian légere, Middle English li(h)ȝere, Middle English lieȝer, liare, Middle English leier, Middle English lyere, Middle English–1500s lier, (Middle English ly(e)ȝere, lyȝer, liȝer, leeȝer, leigher, liere, liyher), Middle English legher(e, ligher, lygher, lyare, Middle English–1500s Scottish lear, Middle English–1600s lyer, Middle English–1700s lyar, (1600s lyarr), 1600s– liar. Etymology: Old English léogere (= Old High German liugari , Icelandic ljúgari ), agent-noun < léogan lie v.² See -ar suffix³, -er suffix¹ 2. a. One who lies or tells a falsehood; an untruthful person. I'm a liar, (in trivial use) I am mistaken. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a liar liarc950 gabbera1325 fabler1362 wernard1362 leasing-mongerc1380 false sayera1382 leasing-maker1424 leasing-bearerc1440 contriver1477 drivelard1530 falsifier1532 lie-teller1552 Ananias1572 lick-dish1575 falsificator1609 fabulist1626 cracka1640 leaser1641 commentiter1645 prevaricator1650 cracker1652 bugiarda1670 rapper1758 pseudologist1804 Tom Pepper1818 wrinkler1819 lie-monger1830 untruther1889 tale-teller1894 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > mistake [phrase] > by myself (I) tell (also am telling) a lie1910 I'm a liar1940 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. vi. 5 Mið ðy gie gebiddas ne wosas ge suæ legeras [other versions liceteras; L. hypocritæ]. a1023 Wulfstan Homilies 79 Up arisað lease leogeras. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 13 Ne beo þu lihȝere ne for eye ne for luue. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 333/362 A strong liare and man of false lawe. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 62 Þe lyeȝere is ylich þe dyeule þet is his uader. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 260 (309) Auauntoure and a lyere al is on. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) i. xvii. 18 He..hath ben found an open lyer. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xx. xiv They that told yow the tales were lyers. c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 422 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 19 Quhedir he a lele man or a lear be. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12590 Thus lytherly þo lyghers lappit þere tales. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Prol. f. 2^v He is ane lear, and in him yair is na verite. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G4^v Of all Writers vnder the sunne, the Poet is the least lier. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxii. §6. 547 Poets are liers, and for verses sake Will make the Gods of humane crimes partake. a1764 R. Lloyd Fam. Epist. to J. B. in Poet. Wks. (1774) I. 96 Who are known lyars by profession. 1782 V. Knox Ess. (1819) I. ii. 12 An habitual liar..must possess a poor and pusillanimous heart. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xiv. 130 ‘Now tell me I'm a liar!’ said the honest man. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 359 You are a liar, Meletus, not believed even by yourself. 1940 Sunday Express 31 Mar. 3/5 ‘That's not my brother Sid you met in here last Thursday. Or was it Friday?’ We said we didn't remember... ‘I'm a liar. It was Wednesday.’ 1972 W. Garner Ditto, Brother Rat! xv. 105 Last winter, was it? No, I'm a liar. The spring. That's right. Proverbs.c1250 Ten Abuses in Old Eng. Misc. 184 Old mon lechur, Ȝunch mon lieȝer [2nd text lyere].1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. E.iij^v A lyer ought not to be forgetfull.a1555 H. Latimer in N. Ridley & H. Latimer Certein Conf. (1556) f. 10 Lyars hadde nede to haue goode memories.a1607 H. Chettle Trag. Hoffman (1631) sig. I2^v Lyer, lyer, licke dish. b. the liar (Logic): the name of the paradox involved in a speaker's statement that he is lying or is a (habitual) liar; so liar paradox, paradox of the liar. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > logical fallacy > paradox > types of the liar1871 logical paradox1904 Russell's paradox1904 Russell's antinomy1930 1871 T. M. Lindsay tr. F. Ueberweg Syst. Logic v. §77. 245 This case happens when, and only when, the truth of the judgment is itself the object of the judgment, or belongs to the object of the judgment. The ancients have empirically discovered this case, without..giving an account of its logical nature. What is called ‘The Liar’ represents it. Epimenides, the Cretan, says, all the Cretans are liars. 1906 J. N. Keynes Stud. & Exerc. Formal Logic (ed. 4) App. B. 457 The sophism known as Ψενδόμενος or The Liar. 1908 B. Russell in Amer. Jrnl. Math. 30 240 Hence his statement is false, and yet its falsehood does not imply, as that of ‘I am lying’ appeared to do, that he is making a true statement. This solves the liar. 1940 B. Russell Inq. into Meaning & Truth iv. 62 The inference from the paradox of the liar is.. as follows. 1959 E. W. Beth Found. Math. vi. xvii. 485 The natural first reaction to the liar paradox is to ascribe the contradiction to the fact that the statement involved refers to itself. 1967 Encycl. Philos. V. 46/1 But one, the Liar,..is still of great interest to us. 1970 R. L. Martin (title) The paradox of the liar. 1971 Philosophy 46 133 (heading) Tarski, Frege, and the liar paradox. Compounds C1. attributive or adj. Lying, deceitful. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6819 Tak þou noght wit tunge leier. C2. liar dice n. a gambling game resembling poker dice, in which the thrower conceals the dice thrown and sometimes declares a false score; also elliptical (in plural). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > other dice games rafflec1405 passagec1425 treygobet1426 mumchance1528 trey-trip1564 lots?1577 novum?1577 fox-mine-host1622 in and in1630 merry main1664 snake1688 pass-dice1753 chicken hazard1781 Shaking in the Shallow1795 sequin hazard1825 chuck-a-luck1836 Newmarket1837 chicken1849 poker dice1870 under and over1890 sweat1894 crown and anchor1902 Murrumbidgee1917 beetle1936 liar dice1946 Yahtzee1957 1946 J. Scarne On Dice (ed. 2) xvii. 386 Liar or Doubting Dice. A popular game on transpacific liners and in the Far East, it is now gaining rapidly in popularity in the United States. 1956 M. McMinnies Flying Fox i. iv. 55 Everybody was round the bar playing liar dice. 1959 R. Kirkbride Tamiko v. 37 ‘Which do you play, Balin?’ ‘Which?’ ‘Liars, Horses, Cameroon—.’ ‘I don't play dice.’ 1966 O. Norton School of Liars i. 2 I spent two months in graduating from the empty lounge to the bar, two more in..reaching the inner group, the liar-dice school. 1966 O. Norton School of Liars ii. 23 We sat there playing liars until twenty past two. 1971 C. Bonington Annapurna South Face ix. 107 After the meal we played liar dice or Scrabble, with our tape-recorder blasting out music in the background. liar's bench n. (see quot. 1859). ΚΠ 1859 Nares's Gloss. Liars'-bench, a place in St. Paul's Cathedral in the sixteenth century, so called because it was stated that the disaffected made appointments there. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c950
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