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flatcatcher

flatcatcher noun: an animal in poor condition that may be sold to an unwitting purchaser.

Noun

flatcatcher (plural flatcatchers)

  1. (dated, slang) An animal in poor condition that may be sold to an unwitting purchaser.
    • […] the limbs don't grow in proportion, and a heavy-topped light-timbered brute comes into the market unsaleable, or perchance a flatcatcher.1871, Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, Journal, page 237

Forms of flatcatcher

pluralflatcatchers

Origin of flatcatcher

flat + catcher; see flat (“a fool”).

Questions about flatcatcher

What does flatcatcher mean?
Flatcatcher means an animal in poor condition that may be sold to an unwitting purchaser.
What part of speech is flatcatcher?
Flatcatcher is a noun.
What is the plural of flatcatcher?
The plural of flatcatcher is flatcatchers.

Words near flatcatcher in the dictionary

  1. flatcakes
  2. flatcap
  3. flatcaps
  4. flatcar
  5. flatcars
  6. flatcatcher
  7. flatcatchers
  8. flatcest
  9. flatch
  10. flatch-kennurd
  11. flatch-yennep

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