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Definition of Funsters
1. funster [n] - See also: funster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Funsters
Literary usage of Funsters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Little Classics edited by Rossiter Johnson (1874)
"... AND DECAYED funsters. BT OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. |AVING just returned from a
visit to this admirable Institution in company with a friend who is one of ..."
2. The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most (1878)
"... There was mounting 'mong Grames of the Netherby clan ; funsters, Fenwicks,
and Musgraves, they rode and they ran ; There was racing and chasing on ..."
3. Laconics, Or The Best Words of the Best Authors: Or the Best Words of the by John Timbs (1856)
"funsters very much contribute towards the Sardonic laugh, and the extremes of
either wit or folly seldom fail of raising this noisy kind of applause. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Below these are the small peasant estates (generally capable of supporting from
10 to 15 cows) ; there is abo a class of cottar freeholders called funsters, ..."
5. Chambers's Biographical Dictionary: The Great of All Times and Nations by Francis Hindes Groome, David Patrick (1898)
"... The Promise of May (1882 ; printed 1880), a modern domestic piece ; The
funsters (1092), the poet's own version of the Robin Hood legend. ..."
6. Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of by John Timbs (1868)
"... was formerly levied by the 'funsters at the doors, upon condition that the
youngest of them could repeat his gamut; if he failed, t.if spur-bearer was ..."
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