lingster
lingster is the alternative form of linkster.
Meaning of linkster
Noun (1)
linkster (plural linksters)
- A golfer.
- Gleefully and legally intruding upon the sanctum of the wealthy linksters, we walked the mitigation meadows.2010, Robert Michael Pyle, chapter 18, in Mariposa Road, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 158
Noun (2)
linkster (plural linksters)
- An interpreter; a person who understands more than one language.
- There was one Redman suspected to have betrayed their pinnace, for he being linkister, (because he could speak the language,) and being put out of that employment for his evil carriage, did bear ill will to the master […]1645, John Winthrop, journal entry, in James Savage (ed.), The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, New York: Arno Press, 1972, p. 237
- In West and Central Africa, a bi- or multilingual agent or broker facilitating trade between Europeans and non-Europeans.
- Upon it [the peninsula] are built four trading houses—two English, one German, and one Portuguese—which serve as depôts for the produce purchased and brought down from the interior by ‘linksters,’ or native middlemen.1885, R. Wright Hay, “West Africa” in The Missionary Herald, 1885-1886, 1 March, 1886, p. 104
Forms of lingster
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Questions about lingster
- What is lingster the alternative form of?
- Lingster is the alternative form of linkster.
Words near lingster in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: lingster (page history and authors); linkster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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