ProphetesAI is thinking...
patterer
Answers
MindMap
Loading...
Sources
patterer
patterer (ˈpætərə(r)) [f. patter v.1 + -er1.] One who patters. a. One who says paternosters, or mechanically repeats prayers, formulæ, etc.1513 Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 105 Preistis [quha] suld be patereris and for the peple pray. 1835 Court Mag. VI. 108/1 This pale-faced patterer of prayers and re...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
Street literature
Sold by a patterer, which was 'a noisy talkative street hawker of songs, last dying speeches, &c.'. "The man who hawks them, a patterer, often changes the scene of the awful event to suit the taste of the neighbourhood he is trying to delude."
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
swatchel
swatchel slang. (ˈswɒtʃəl) Also 9 schwassle. [Perh. f. G. schwätzeln, frequentative form of schwatzen to chatter, tattle.] An older form of swazzle; also interpreted as the name for Mr. Punch in a Punch and Judy show. Freq. attrib., as swatchel box, swatchel cove (see quots.).1854 Househ. Words 24 S...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
Ned Kelly Awards
Bleed For Me
Garry Disher, Wyatt
Best First Crime Novel
Andrew Coome, Document Z
Mark Dapin, King of the Cross
Robin Adair, Death and the Running Patterer
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
charlatan
charlatan, n. and a. (ˈʃɑːlətən, -tæn) Forms: 7 chiarlatan, charlitan, (schareleton), 7– charlatan. [a. F. charlatan ‘a mountebanke, a cousening drug-seller, a pratling quack-salver, a tatler, babler’ (Cotgr.), ad. It. ciarlatano = ciarlatore babbler, patterer, mountebank, f. ciarlare to babble, pat...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
lurker
▪ I. lurker1 (ˈlɜːkə(r)) [f. lurk v. + -er1.] 1. One who lurks or lies concealed: freq. employed as a term of abuse in early quots. lit. and fig.a 1325 Names of Hare in Rel. Ant. I. 133 The wilde der, the lepere, The shorte der, the lerkere. 1399 Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 57 But as sone as þey [the ...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
tedious
tedious, a. (ˈtiːdɪəs) Forms: 5 ted(e)us, tedi-, tidiose, 5–7 tedy-, 6 tede-, tide-, tydy-, tyde-, Sc. tidi-, 6–7 teydi-, 7–8 teadi-, 8 tædi-, 5– tedious. (Also 6 tedy-, tiddius, Sc. tideus, -ews, 6–7 tedius.) [ad. late L. tædiōs-us irksome, f. tædium, tedium: see -ous; perh. partly ad. OF. tedieus,...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
shake
▪ I. shake, n.1 (ʃeɪk) Also 4 schak, 5 schakke, 8–9 shack. [f. shake v.] † I. 1. a. With prefixed adj., as advb. cognate obj. to shake vb., or other vbs. of motion, a good, great, etc. shake: quickly, with headlong speed.13.. K. Alis. 232 Away he rod from heom god schak. 13.. Propr. Sanct. (Vernon M...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai