ˈtrencher-friend ? Obs.
A parasite; a toady.
| 1590 Greene Never too Late Wks. (Grosart) VIII. 130 Flattering Gnatos, that only are time pleasers and trencher friends. 1607 Shakes. Timon iii. vi. 106 You Fooles of Fortune, Trencher-friends, Time Flyes, Cap and knee-Slaues. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 647 A Trencher friend; amicus mensæ. 1763 C. Johnston Reverie II. 243 He gathered all his old pot-companions and trencher-friends about him, and fell to carousing as usual. |