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screwer (ˈskruːə(r)) [f. screw v. + -er1.] 1. One who or that which screws. Also with up.1654 R. Whitlock Zootomia 484, I am, saith he, incredibly taken with Musick and Dancing..it seemeth a Screwer up of lower Passions (more than Pins). 1826 Cobbett Rural Rides (1885) II. 198 A cruel screwer down o...
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Carry On Again Doctor
Nookey discovers Gladstone Screwer (Sid James), the local medicine man, who has a weight-loss serum. Cast
Sid James as Gladstone Screwer
Jim Dale as Doctor Jimmy Nookey
Kenneth Williams as Doctor Frederick Carver
Charles Hawtrey as Doctor Ernest Stoppidge
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mounter
▪ I. † ˈmounter1 Obs. rare. Also 6 mownter. [? var. of mounture. (Cf. provincial F. monture cattle on a farm (Godefr.).] ? A portion of the chattels of a deceased tenant which was due by feudal custom to the lord; cf. heriot.c 1500 in I. S. Leadam Star Chamber Cases (1903) 101 The seid Erle owght to...
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James T. Aubrey
I've been the screwer and the screwee, and I know which is better. It's better to be the screwer, and it's very difficult to do that with honesty, but it's how I prefer to be treated.
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slotter
▪ I. ˈslotter, n. [f. slot v.2] One who makes slots; also, a slotting-machine.1881 Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 42 Engine and Machine Making:..Slotter. Screwer. 1891 Pall Mall G. 24 Nov. 7/2 Planers, slotters, turners, smiths, and men engaged in skilled work.▪ II. slotter, v. Now dial. (ˈslɒtə(r)) Al...
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thimble
thimble, n. (ˈθɪmb(ə)l) Forms: α. 1 þ{yacu}mel, 5–6 thymelle, -yl(le, thymle, themel, -elle, -yl(le, (5 thomelle, timmele), 9 dial. thimmel. β. 5 thymbyl(l, thomble, 6 thymble, -bel(l, -bil(l, thumble, (tymble), 6–7 thimbell, 6– thimble. [OE. þ{yacu}mel, f. þ{uacu}ma thumb + -el, -le, suffix forming...
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Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek
Alent has the boys accomplish a mission - doing a research in the Earth's interior; vehicle - Screwer)
Book XVI (1981) - Tytus Becoming a Journalist
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wringer
wringer (ˈrɪŋə(r)) Also 6–7 ringer. [f. prec. + -er1. Cf. OHG. ringari (MHG., G. ringer) wrestler.] I. 1. An exactor, extortioner; an oppressor.a 1300 Sarmun xxi. in E.E.P. (1862) 3 Such a wringer goþ to helle for litil gode þat nis noȝt his. 1562 J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 206 How lost you yo...
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Marc Bolan
I'm a great screwer". Asked about the institution of marriage, he replied: "Gloria doesn't want to get married and neither do I.
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smash-and-grab
smash-and-grab Also smash and grab, smash'n-grab. [f. smash v.1, grab v.] Used attrib. to designate a type of robbery in which the thief smashes a shop-window and grabs the goods there displayed. Also transf. and fig., and absol. Hence smash-and-grabber; smash and grabbing vbl. n.1927 J. C. Goodwin ...
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stocker
stocker (ˈstɒkə(r)) [f. stock v.1 and n.1 + -er1.] 1. A workman who makes or fits stocks, esp. gun-stocks.1641 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1870) V. 562/2 Stockeres of Gunes. 1881 Greener Gun 249 The stocker upon receiving the stock first roughs it into shape. 1886 Daily Tel. 9 Feb. 7/5 Gun Maker. Wanted a sto...
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skipper
▪ I. skipper, n.1 (ˈskɪpə(r)) Also 5 skyppare, 6 skyppar. [f. skip v.1 + -er1.] 1. One who or that which skips or jumps.c 1440 Promp. Parv. 458/1 Skyppare, saltator, saltatrix. 1530 Palsgr. 271/1 Skyppar, saultevr. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 264 Many a time the fishers twitch vp their hooks, and see a nu...
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bust
▪ I. bust, n.1 (bʌst) [a. F. buste (of which Littré gives no examples earlier than 17th c.), ad. It. busto = Sp., Pg. busto, Pr. bustz (rare). The primary sense in It., and the only sense in Pr., is ‘trunk or upper portion of the body’. The origin of the Romanic word has not been satisfactorily asce...
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minder
minder (ˈmaɪndə(r)) Also 5 mendowre. [f. mind n.1 and v. + -er1.] † 1. One who remembers. Obs. rare.c 1440 Promp. Parv. 332/1 Meende haver, or mendowre, memor. ¶ 2. As transl. of τὸ νοοῦν (the thinking subject).1587 Golding De Mornay vi. 86 [Plotinus] his conclusion is, that the Mynder, the Mynding,...
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screw
▪ I. screw, n.1 (skruː) Forms: 5 scrwe, skrew(e, 6–7 skrue, skrew, 6–8 scrue, 7– screw. [Apparently, in spite of the difference of sense, a. OF. escroue fem., also escro masc. (mod.F. écrou) female screw, nut; not found in the other Rom. langs. The Teut. langs. have (though not recorded from their e...
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