Did you maybe mean one of these? obeyed, oner, opener
Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A word found only in Shakspere, and explained by Malone as “an accountant of the exchequer.”
Examples
“Ah, yes -- you are a oneyer too, like myself," said Arabella, eyeing her visitor with humorous criticism.”
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rolig Doesn't it seem likely that Shakespeare was making a joke? Instead of saying simply "Great Ones" (which I think was a set phrase then, as it still is today, for the privileged in society), he was poking fun at such folks by appending the suffix -yer, as if being a Great One was not about character or moral stature, it was simply a profession, like that of lawyers and sawyers. In other words, might not oneyer be a Shakespearean madeupical? Mar 13, 2009
bilby Ms Frogapplause. In the conservatory. With a musket. Mar 13, 2009
reesetee So we're back to the question "Who shot the oneyer?" Mar 12, 2009
vanishedone The O.E.D. says the origin is uncertain, the meaning is perhaps 'a sheriff', and it's now used only in allusion to Shakespeare's 'great Oneyres'. However, it does seem to be sure that the -yer is the same as in lawyer; great oneyer is given as an example under the entry for the suffix. Mar 12, 2009