guiser

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And he could not dress up and be a guiser, could he, mother, for the guisers sang a song, and he did not know the words?

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  1. One who goes from house to house whimsically disguised, and making diversion with songs and antics, usually at Christmas; a masker; a mummer. [Eng.]

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  • In short order: the caravan is violently broken up by the police and some of its more militant members go hiding in the woods; an amoral child molester known as Root connects with them; and the guiser, a mysterious and deadly trickster who could have stepped out of one of the tales Coffey's mother tells, arrives in the woods. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 06 - June 2000
  • And he could not dress up and be a guiser, could he, mother, for the guisers sang a song, and he did not know the words? —  Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood
 

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