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Definition of Rumourer
1. one who spreads rumours [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rumourer
Literary usage of Rumourer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"No doubt this is a felicitous emendation, though I think it may be fairly objected
that a rumourer, being one who deals in what ho hears, as opposed to an ..."
2. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1854)
"She would hardly descend from the generic personification of Rumour to the
particularity of a rumourer, or, what is worse, ..."
3. Coriolanus by William Shakespeare (1891)
"... Which were inshell'd when Marcius stood for Rome, And durst not once peep out.
Sic. Come, what talk you of Marcius? Bru. Go see this rumourer whipp'd. ..."
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