单词 | pickeerer |
释义 | pickeerern. Now archaic and rare. A person who engages in pickeering, a skirmisher. Chiefly figurative: a provoker of petty confrontations, a contentious or argumentative person. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrelsomeness > quarrelsome person conteckerc1300 brawler1377 strivera1400 debater1413 tuilyier1444 briguer1496 Sir Wrig-wraga1529 brabbler1570 squarer1600 pickeerer1656 rafflerc1750 roit1825 pickeer1888 1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 190 The Club pickearer, the robust Church warden Of Lincolne's Inn back corner. 1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling i. i. § 19 What the end will be of these piqueerers in impudence, who thus put their vertu on the forlorn hope. 1685 W. Clark Grand Tryal iv. xxxvii. 324 For these Pickeerers, firing here and there, Do with their small Shot raise no little fear. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §145. 406 He is now a Picquerer, relates Nothing but by Way of Cavil. a1913 F. Rolfe Desire & Pursuit of Whole (1934) ix. 86 Land-sharks, bandits, piqueerers,..light-fingered gentry, and other varieties of legs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1656 |
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