lamesters

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....
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