guesser
(ˈgɛsə(r))
Also 5 gessare, 6 gesser.
[f. guess v. + -er1.]
One who guesses.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 190/2 Gessare (K. or a soposare), estimator. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Vn devin, a soothsayer, a gesser. 1651 Hobbes Leviath. i. iii. 10 The best guesser, he that is most versed and studied in the matters he guesses at. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 115 You shall be..the guessers of my dream. 1754 Richardson Grandison (1781) III. xxx. 355 You are a strange guesser. 1833 T. Hook Widow & Marquess vii, French physicians are, if possible, worse guessers than English ones. 1881 Nation (N.Y.) XXXII. 316 For in these a guesser would be correct exactly half the time. |