sorner

English

Etymology

sorn +‎ -er

Noun

sorner (plural sorners)

  1. (Scotland) One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of De Quincey to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sorner in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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