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twinner

twinner noun: one who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins.

Noun

twinner (plural twinners)

  1. One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins.
    • Ewes yeerly by twinning rich maisters doo make,
      the lamb of such twinners for breeders go take1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […]...
    • In the former or first four pregnancies the proportion of twinners in a hundred twinners is smaller than the proportion of child-bearers in a hundred : […]1865, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal ..., page 777
  2. One who visits or interacts with a sister city of their own city.
    • Beyond correspondence, twinners around the country got very interested in elaborating their relation to their paired city by visiting it.1993, John Lofland, Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 58
  3. (uncommon) One who is identical, is similar, or is a counterpart, to another person.
    • The twinner of Jack's ailing mother, a faded movie actress named Lily Cavanaugh (who was billed in her time as the “Queen of the B Movies”), […]2016, John C. Tibbetts, The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, McFarland, →ISBN, page 149
    • Everyone, that is, except for Jack; his twinner, Jason, died as a baby and has become something of a mythical character in the alternate world, […]2020, Debbie Olson, Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 185

Forms of twinner

pluraltwinners

Origin of twinner

From twin + -er.

Words that rhyme with twinner

Questions about twinner

What does twinner mean?
Twinner means one who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins.
What part of speech is twinner?
Twinner is a noun.
What is the plural of twinner?
The plural of twinner is twinners.

Words near twinner in the dictionary

  1. twinling
  2. twinlings
  3. twinly
  4. twinnable
  5. twinned
  6. twinner
  7. twinners
  8. twinness
  9. twinnie
  10. twinnies
  11. twinning

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