pleasurern.
/ˈplɛʒ(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈplɛʒ(ə)rər/ A pleasure-seeker, esp. one on holiday; (now) spec. a person taking a trip on a trawler or other boat purely for recreational purposes.
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society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] > one engaged in amusement or entertainment
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [noun] > pleasure-seeking > pleasure-seeker
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1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 182 These pleasurers [earn] their enjoyments by the sweat of their brow.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 142 Let us turn now, to another portion of the London population..we mean the Sunday pleasurers.
1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights xxii Parties of pleasurers returning from their day's excursions.
1907 Daily Chron. 20 Nov. 3/3 Cheap fares to the West-end bring Earl's Court and the central music-halls almost to the doorsteps of the suburban pleasurer.
1972 Guardian 8 Nov. 13/4 He became the WEA's farthest-flung tutor... He boarded the trawler simply as a ‘pleasurer’, the slightly contemptuous term that fishermen use for guests of the skipper or the owners.
1974 S. Piper North Ships Pleasurer, a person, e.g. a journalist or other ‘tourist’, taken along for one trip on a trawler ‘just for the ride’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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