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Definition of Drubber
1. n. One who drubs.
Definition of Drubber
1. Noun. A person who gives someone a drubbing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drubber
1. one that drubs [n -S] - See also: drubs
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drubber
Literary usage of Drubber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Waverley, Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott, Andrew Lang (1892)
"As this was beyond the capacity of the drubber of sheepskin, he was fain to have
recourse to the inoffensive row-dow-dow as a harmless substitute for the ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"... are models of what pulpit eloquence should not be.— Evening News. "Tub-preacher"
is an old term for a ranting, dissenting preacher. Also " tub-drubber. ..."
3. The Southern Review (1828)
"Pray, who, for a devil's drubber, may he be ?—one of your In rums that is trained
for the work like a wrestler for the ..."
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