messer-abouter
messer-abouter noun: one who messes about.
Noun
messer-abouter (plural messer-abouters)
- One who messes about.
- He’s a gypsy, a wanderer, a general messer-abouter, here today and gone tomorrow and God only knows where the day after.1965, Eric Frank Russell, The Mindwarpers, New York, N.Y.: Prestige Books, published December 1972, page 127
- Alan: It’s obvious really isn’t it? If you haven’t got nothing [no qualifications] you’re going to be a ‘messer-abouter’ really.1987, Phillip Brown, Schooling Ordinary Kids: Inequality, Unemployment, and the New Vocationalism, London; New York, N.Y.: Tavistock Publications, →ISBN, page 86
Forms of messer-abouter
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Origin of messer-abouter
From mess about with -er.
Questions about messer-abouter
- What does messer-abouter mean?
- Messer-abouter means one who messes about.
- What part of speech is messer-abouter?
- Messer-abouter is a noun.
- What is the plural of messer-abouter?
- The plural of messer-abouter is messer-abouters.
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