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lamester

lamester noun: a person or animal that is lame (unable to walk properly or moving with pain); one who limps.

Noun

lamester (plural lamesters)

  1. A person or animal that is lame (unable to walk properly or moving with pain); one who limps.
    • […]: if free from all ſinnes mortall, wounding and waſting the conſcience; elſe, as thoſe Lameſters at the poole of Betheſda, they are too ulcerous, and full of ſores, to be entertained by this King:[…]1639, William Sclater, The Worthy Communicant Rewarded: Laid Forth in a Sermon, on John 6.54. Preached in the Cathedrall of St. Peter in Exeter, on Low-Sunday, Being the 21. of Aprill, Anno 1639....
    • Devoted to the woman of his choice; and proud that by her, he—once a despised and laughter moving lamester—should have been chosen above all others who strove for her hand;1844, [Augustus Collingridge], “Aunt Margaret; or, The Stolen Match.”, in The Lieutenant, and the Crooked Midshipman. A Tale of the Ocean., volume II, London: A. K. Newman and Company, chapter XIV...
  2. (slang) A person who fails to be cool, interesting or relevant.
    • Jack Kerouac, standing up there and improvising poems to jazz, was a lousy poet. Not as bad as these guys, of course, but lousy enough. Lamesters attract hordes of imitators: it’s much easier to imitate a flamboyant asshole, bully who gets by, essentially, on intimidating others, than to take the...1991, Agni, page 156
    • But this gig might be a tad more complicated than he had figured. They had invited a bunch of their friends, lamesters of all kinds. People who looked seven-eighths dead. “Johnny, we’d like to introduce you to the people who are known as the council.[…]”2011, Robert Ward, The Best Bad Dream, Mysterious Press, →ISBN

Examples of lamester in a sentence

  • “The thoughts do not come so quickly as they once did, and the words, too, hobble along like lamesters on crutches.”1879, [Mary Louisa] Molesworth, The Tapestry Room: A Child’s Romance, London: Macmillan and Co., page 112:
  • The point seems to be that the crippled “duck” is (like the animal) shunned by the healthier ducks, who have things to do and places to fly without being dragged down by lamesters.2001, Michael Macrone, A Fine Kettle of Fish: And 150 Other Animal Expressions, New York, N.Y.: MJF Books, →ISBN, page 38:
  • hey, you must be the two lamesters the old broad who gave me this kewl gun warned me about.2018, Gordon Rennie, Fighting American: The Ties That Bind, number 1, Titan Comics:

Forms of lamester

plurallamesters

Origin of lamester

From lame + -ster.

Questions about lamester

What does lamester mean?
Lamester means a person or animal that is lame (unable to walk properly or moving with pain); one who limps.
How do you use lamester in a sentence?
“The thoughts do not come so quickly as they once did, and the words, too, hobble along like lamesters on crutches.”
What part of speech is lamester?
Lamester is a noun.
What is the plural of lamester?
The plural of lamester is lamesters.

Words near lamester in the dictionary

  1. Lamesa
  2. lamesauce
  3. Lamesha
  4. Lamesley
  5. lamest
  6. lamester
  7. lamesteries
  8. lamesters
  9. lamestery
  10. lamestream
  11. lamestreamer

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