accommodatern.

1640 Earl of Leicester Let. 5 May in A. Collins Lett. & Mem. State (1746) II. 652 But these Accommodaters are not of my Minde, for somewhat still will stick in their Handes, when another Man's Money is to passe through them.

1785 C. Dibdin Liberty-Hall i. i. 9 You are a pretty accommodater of differences!

1824 Jew Nov. 201 Whoever you be, that wrote the book of Saint Matthew,..is it not apparent therefore you are a violent accommodater?

1896 J. F. Taylor Owen Roe O'Neill ix. 166 A power..which, despising all ‘accommodaters’ as heartily as Owen himself, was to open a way for Ulster to assert herself in the National councils.

1958 Pop. Sci. Dec. 91/2 ‘I'd like to see them make’..earring accommodaters for phone receivers so women wouldn't have to remove an earring to hear properly.

1974 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 43 491 Freedom must mean respect for the so-called militant, the middle classer, the accommodater, the intellectualizer, or the old timer because all play a part in extending the assets of Blackness.

2001 J. Quandt Kon Ichikawa Intro. 9 Condemned..by others as an accommodater or opportunist.

1902 Amer. Kitchen Mag. Apr. 21/1 The master of the house telephones that he will bring two gentlemen..home to dinner... There is nothing for it but to send for the accommodater.

1918 O. H. Prouty Star in Window ii. 22 Who the woman is they call an accommodater they said I'd got to have in the kitchen, cooking my food and throwing it away untouched in the swill.

1920 Amer. Cookery Oct. 186/1 Henrietta is an accommodater; the word isn't in the dictionary, but is in the vocabulary of her kind. Henrietta is dark of color and strong of will, and cherishes a home to which she returns at night after her day's work ‘out’.