† squitter-comb. form
the verbal stem used in combination.
squitter-book n. a scribbler, a copious but worthless writer.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer
scribblera1556
paper-blurrera1586
by-writer1587
feather-driver1593
squitter-book1594
paper-stainer1596
blur-paper1603
spoil-paper1610
penster1611
inkhorn matea1616
squitter-wit1615
ink-dabbler1616
squitter-pulpa1640
quill-driver1700
scribble-scrabble1707
authorling1752
writerling1802
inkhorn varlet1820
toe-writer1845
pen-driver1854
anonymuncule1859
ink-jerker1865
pen-pusher1875
pseudonymuncle1875
ink-spiller1881
ink-slinger1887
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1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. Fv The scolasticall squitter bookes clout you vp cannopies & foot-clothes of verses.
1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will in Wks. (Grosart) VI. 149 All this would not make me a squitter-booke.
squitter-pulp n. = squitter-book n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer
scribblera1556
paper-blurrera1586
by-writer1587
feather-driver1593
squitter-book1594
paper-stainer1596
blur-paper1603
spoil-paper1610
penster1611
inkhorn matea1616
squitter-wit1615
ink-dabbler1616
squitter-pulpa1640
quill-driver1700
scribble-scrabble1707
authorling1752
writerling1802
inkhorn varlet1820
toe-writer1845
pen-driver1854
anonymuncule1859
ink-jerker1865
pen-pusher1875
pseudonymuncle1875
ink-spiller1881
ink-slinger1887
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a1640 J. Day Parl. Bees (1641) sig. D3v Some lowzy ballad? I cannot choose but laugh At these poor squitter pulps.
squitter-wit n. = squitter-book n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer
scribblera1556
paper-blurrera1586
by-writer1587
feather-driver1593
squitter-book1594
paper-stainer1596
blur-paper1603
spoil-paper1610
penster1611
inkhorn matea1616
squitter-wit1615
ink-dabbler1616
squitter-pulpa1640
quill-driver1700
scribble-scrabble1707
authorling1752
writerling1802
inkhorn varlet1820
toe-writer1845
pen-driver1854
anonymuncule1859
ink-jerker1865
pen-pusher1875
pseudonymuncle1875
ink-spiller1881
ink-slinger1887
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1615 J. H. This Worlds Folly sig. Biij Those mercenary squitter-wits, miscalled Poets.
squitter-breech n. one who has or suffers from diarrhoea.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > diarrhoea > person
squirter1600
squitter-breech1619
1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher King & No King ii. sig. D4 How now goodman squitterbreech, why doe you leane so on me?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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