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messer-abouters

messer-abouters is the plural of messer-abouter.

Meaning of messer-abouter

Noun

messer-abouter (plural messer-abouters)

  1. (rare) 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

Questions about messer-abouters

What is messer-abouters the plural of?
Messer-abouters is the plural of messer-abouter.

Words near messer-abouters in the dictionary

  1. Messenia
  2. Messenian
  3. Messenians
  4. messer
  5. messer-abouter
  6. messer-abouters
  7. messer-upper
  8. messer-uppers
  9. Messerer
  10. Messerly
  11. Messerlys

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