shortern.
/ˈʃɔːtə/, U.S. /ˈʃɔrdər/ slang.
A clipper of coin.
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clipperc1330
rounger?a1400
washerc1450
money batterer?1518
launderer1632
tonsor1697
money-clipper1759
plugger1842
sweater1845
shorter1857
1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye II. x. 122 My grandfather was a shorter, and my father was a smasher.
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 229 From a crown-piece a shorter could gain 5d.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1857- servator
- servatory
- serve
- serve a person heir to
- serve a person right
- serve a person's turn
- serve a turn
- serve a volunteer
- serve an apprenticeship
- serve an apprenticeship to
- serve and sue
- serve and volley
- serve apprenticeship
- serve at bar
- serve at the bar
- serve away
- serve etc right
- serve etc turn
- serve forth
- serve hard time
- serve heir to
- serve in
- serve in some, no stead
- serve its turn
- serve mass