trouncern.
/ˈtraʊnsə/, U.S. /ˈtraʊnsər/ One who trounces; spec. an odd man (see odd adj. 8f); an assistant to a carman, drayman, or lorry-driver; †on a man-of-war: see quot. 1867 (obsolete).
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who beats
beater1483
lambacker1593
breecher1611
trouncerc1630
flaybreech1671
flogger1708
drubbera1721
thrasher?1853
swisher1884
society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > flogging schoolmaster
trouncerc1630
bum-brusher1682
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > [noun] > others
press-gang1693
young gentleman1784
sidesman1803
side boy1823
trouncer1867
rating1877
Navy Leaguer1898
requestman1916
tiger1929
mineman1943
shore patrolman1944
striker1944
ping1948
pinger1961
bubblehead1965
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > [noun] > odd-job or handyman
factotum1562
Magister factotum1573
Johannes factotum1592
Jack of all trades1618
Tom of all trades1631
John-of-all-trades1639
handyman1742
odd man1743
gimcrack1766
Jack of all work1773
orraman1802
bottle washer1835
Jack1836
odd-jobs man1859
roustabout1862
hob-jobber1873
rouster1882
odd-jobber1886
knockabout1889
orra-loon1895
rouser1896
trouncer1896
leatherneck1898
loppy1898
rouseabout1901
bluetongue2002
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of cart > assistant to
trouncer1896
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > rebuker or reprover
withtakera1340
reprovera1382
undernimmera1382
undertakerc1430
rebukerc1449
checker1535
reprehender1537
reprimander1729
expostulator1795
snubber1861
trouncer1898
c1630 Dr. Triplet in Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) I. 264 When this well truss't trounser Into the school doth enter.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Trouncer, an old word for a waister. [Waisters..had little else of duty but hoisting and swabbing the decks.]
1896 Booth in Westm. Gaz. 26 Mar. 2/1 Brewhouse men, cellar men, yardmen, coopers, filings-makers, draymen, and trouncers.
1898 A. Lang in Longman's Mag. Nov. 92 My friend and constant ‘trouncer’..has been pitching into me.
1913 M. S. Reeves Round about Pound a Week i. 2 Some of the more enviable and settled inhabitants of this part of the world [sc. Kennington]..generally are somebody's labourer, mate, or handyman. Painters' labourers..trouncers for carmen, are common amongst them.
1923 Weekly Disp. 30 Sept. 3 It was stated that a ‘trouncer’ was a coal carman's assistant.
1953 Word for Word (Whitbread & Co.) 35/2 Trouncer, the drayman's mate; so-called because, before the improvement of roads under Telford and MacAdam, he had to ‘trounce’, i.e., push and manhandle the dray over the innumerable potholes and hazards.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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