liar
nounEtymology
Inherited from Middle English lier, liere, lyere, liȝer, lieȝer, legher, from Old English lēgere, lēogere (“liar, false witness, hypocrite”), from Proto-West Germanic *leugārī, from Proto-Germanic *leugārijaz (“liar”), from *leuganą (“to lie”) + *-ārijaz, equivalent to lie + -ar. More at lie.
Definitions
Someone who tells a lie
Someone who tells a lie; especially, a person who frequently lies.
- He simply said, "We know, the Big Satan is a big liar."
A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins,…
A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week.
- The swabber, perhaps the lowliest position on the ship, was responsible for cleaning the decks. By tradition, each Monday a new crewmember was appointed the liar—the first person caught telling a lie the previous week.
The neighborhood
- synonymbluffer
- synonymbullshitter
- synonymcontradictor
- synonymdeceiver
- synonymfabricator
- synonymfabulist
- synonymfalsifier
- synonymfibber
- synonymgoofer
- synonymgossiper
- synonymnonsenser
- synonymred flagger
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for liar. 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