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词组 nointer
释义 nointer
noun
in Tasmania, a brat or mischievous child AUSTRALIA
Survival of a British dialect word, clipping of “anointer” in the same sense. Formerly (C16, Oxford English Dictionary) the word “anoint” meant “to beat soundly”, thus “anointer” would mean “one who requires anointing/beating”.
  • [T]hey came in grade ranging from “a bit of a nointer” to “a real nointer” but even the latter was not beyond redemption. — Mercury, p. 25, 1 August 1994
  • — Maureen Brooks and Joan Ritchie, Tassie Terms, p. 100, 1995
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