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crippler

noun

Etymology

From cripple + -er.

  1. derived from *ger-✻
  2. derived from *grewb-✻
  3. derived from *krupilaz✻
  4. derived from crypel
  5. derived from cripel
  6. suffixed as crippler — “cripple + er”

Definitions

  1. A person who, or thing which cripples.

  2. A corrugated board used to grain leather.

  3. A sighting of an extraordinarily rare bird, such that it almost has an paralysing effect…

    A sighting of an extraordinarily rare bird, such that it almost has an paralysing effect on the birder.

    • Blue-headed Wagtails and migrant Warblers were nice but hardly ‘cripplers’.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for crippler. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA