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Definition of Cringers
1. cringer [n] - See also: cringer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cringers
Literary usage of Cringers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Beaumont & Fletcher by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1890)
"You will not see me murdered, wicked villains ? 1 cringers. 3 A play upon the word.
Rose-nobles were gold coins stamped with a rose, and worth i6s. ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... when those in all parts of these states who could easier realize the true
American character but do not yet—when the swarms of cringers, suckers, ..."
3. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"A cloth, made of wool, sometimes mixed with silk, with я watered surface.
< Colored cloth interwoven with copper. • cringers(V). duck-hunters (?). ..."
4. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1915)
"Voltaire was annoyed by the meaner and baser spirits of his time, by the cringers
and crawlers, ..."
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