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linkster

linkster noun: a golfer.

Noun (1)

linkster (plural linksters)

  1. 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)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) 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
    • I then Called for the White man and made him give in the Indean Tongue the same words that he heard spoke in the Square by the head men, which by my Lingister agreed with what he Told me in English.1725, Tobias Fitch, journal entry, in Newton D. Mereness (ed.), Travels in the American Colonies, New York: Macmillan, 1916, p. 197
  2. (broadly, obsolete) 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
    • “All this,” continued Massala, “shall be set down in writing, and you shall read it, and the English lingster shall tell it straight to us.”1885, Henry Morton Stanley, chapter 8, in The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State, New York: Harper, page 136

Forms of linkster

plurallinksters
alternative formlingister
alternative formlingster
alternative formlinkister

Origin of linkster

From links + -ster.

Syncopic form of linguister, probably modified after link (as a translator was the "link" between two communicating parties).

Questions about linkster

What does linkster mean?
Linkster means a golfer.
What part of speech is linkster?
Linkster is a noun.
What is the plural of linkster?
The plural of linkster is linksters.

Words near linkster in the dictionary

  1. linksman
  2. linksmen
  3. linkspam
  4. linkspan
  5. linkspans
  6. linkster
  7. linksters
  8. linkswoman
  9. linkswomen
  10. linksy
  11. linkt

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