drawcansir

• The large stage blusterer and ostentatious drawcansir were never, in Lamb's estimation, models for heroes. —  Charles Lamb
• I have not the least inclination to be so outrageous a drawcansir in my love affairs! —  Biographia Literaria
• If seriously, he must challenge the prince; but in so doing he might fix on himself the character of a drawcansir. —  Oliver Goldsmith A Biography
• Cicero had been a drawcansir instead of a coward, and had carried the glory of Rome to as lofty a height as he did their eloquence, for how much do you think he would have sold all that reputation? —  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
• But to leave the criticisms of this literary drawcansir to that oblivion to which they seem to be rapidly hastening, let us examine the merits of Barry in some of those characters in which he was universally allowed to excel; and on this scale we must give the preference to Othello. —  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810

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