▪ I. trumper1
(ˈtrʌmpə(r))
Forms: 4 trompor, -er, trumpour, 4–5 trompour(e, 5 trumpowre, 5– trumper.
[a. OF. trompeor, -peur, -pour, trumpeur, etc. (13th c.), f. tromper, trump v.1]
† 1. A trumpeter. Obs.
| 13.. K. Alis. 3426 For the noise of the taboures, And the trumpours [Bodl. MS. trumpes] and jangelours. c 1330 King of Tars 499 Trompors gunne heore bemes blowe. a 1440 Sir Degrev. 661 Trompers tromped to the mete. 14.. Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 693/7 Hec tubicina, a trumper. Ibid. 696/30 Hic tubicen, a trumper. 1483 Cath. Angl. 395/2 A Trumper, buccinator. |
2. slang or vulgar. (Cf. trump n.1 1 e, v.1 1 b.)
| 1836–48 B. D. Walsh Aristoph., Clouds 313. |
▪ II. † ˈtrumper2 Obs.
Forms: 5 trompour, -er, -eur, 6 trumpour, -ir, troumpar, 6– trumper.
[a. F. trompeur (13–14th c. in Godef. Compl.), f. tromper, trump v.2]
A deceiver, impostor, cheat. (In quot. 1456 app. a trifler: cf. trumpery.)
| a 1450 Knt. de la Tour (1906) 33 He nis not so trewe a knight as we wende, for he is but a tromper and a iaper. 1456 Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 287 For syk maner of tromperyis, a prince sulde nocht juge na thole bataill to be. Bot he suld..punys sik trompouris, that..gage bataill for sik fule causis. 1560 Rolland Seven Sag. 37 Fy Trumpour that did sic ane deid. 1571 in Calderwood Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) III. 104 The most vile carion,..the greatest trumper in all Europ. 1603 Philotus l, How durst thow trumper be sa bald To tant or tell, that he was ald? |