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单词 paper-stainer
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paper-stainern.

Brit. /ˈpeɪpəˌsteɪnə/, U.S. /ˈpeɪpərˌsteɪnər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: paper n., stainer n.
Etymology: < paper n. + stainer n.
Now chiefly historical.
1. A person who stains or colours paper. Also (humorous and depreciative): an inferior writer; a clerk.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer
scribblera1556
paper-blurrera1586
by-writer1587
feather-driver1593
squitter-book1594
paper-stainer1596
blur-paper1603
spoil-paper1610
penster1611
inkhorn matea1616
squitter-wit1615
ink-dabbler1616
squitter-pulpa1640
quill-driver1700
scribble-scrabble1707
authorling1752
writerling1802
inkhorn varlet1820
toe-writer1845
pen-driver1854
anonymuncule1859
ink-jerker1865
pen-pusher1875
pseudonymuncle1875
ink-spiller1881
ink-slinger1887
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1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. E2 v Let anie man but finde mee meate and drinke..while I am playing the paper stainer.
1771 Gentleman's Mag. 41 201 The whole tribe of Paper-stainers, from the sleek Divine, to the more active Devil at the Printing Office.
1785 J. Pendred London & Country Printers 14 Brooks, Paper Stainer, Great Queen-street.
1837 R. H. Horne Death of Marlowe i. ii. 12 May no learned or unlearned calf write against your knowledge and wit, and no brother paper-stainer pilfer your pages, and then call you a general thief!
1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. v. viii. 101 ‘We must contrive to agitate the metropolis,’ said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.
1878 B. Harte Cadet Grey in West Point Tic-Tacs 28 To state it plainer..was, in fact, retainer To Jones, whose uncle was a paper stainer!
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Sept. 3/1 The..author..lacks something of the true poet, but rises far above the mere purposeless paper-stainer.
1978 Amer. Notes & Queries Feb. 94/1 Individuals involved in various aspects of the book trades—printers, booksellers, stationers, engravers, binders, and even paper stainers—during the last quarter of the eighteenth century.
2. A maker of wallpaper.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of paper > [noun] > maker of specific type of paper > involved in specific process for wallpaper
paper-stainer1758
grounder1877
1758 J. Mounsey in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 19 Mr. Butler, a paper-stainer, trying to make some discoveries for the better fixing of colours.
1792 N.-Y. Directory 28 Colles, John, paper-stainer, 25, Great dock-street.
1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 22/2 Paper stainers employ distemper colour in printing and staining papers for walls.
1896 Dict. National Biogr. XLV. 302/2 His father wished to apprentice him to a paper-stainer, but he had no taste for a business life.
1920 M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism II. iv. xvii. 330 William Atkinson, the delegate of the paper stainers.
1983 G. Pearson Hooligan (BNC) 82 A 17-year-old paper-stainer..was brought before the magistrate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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