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单词 pickeerer
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pickeerern.

Brit. /pᵻˈkɪərə/, U.S. /pəˈkɪrər/
Forms: 1600s pickearer, 1600s pickeerer, 1600s 1900s– piqueerer, 1700s picquerer.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pickeer v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < pickeer v. + -er suffix1.
Now archaic and rare.
A person who engages in pickeering, a skirmisher. Chiefly figurative: a provoker of petty confrontations, a contentious or argumentative person.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrelsomeness > quarrelsome person
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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).
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