单词 | paper-stainer |
释义 | paper-stainern. 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 blotter- 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). < n.1596 |
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