Examples
“So the matter was put in the hands of Mark Hoban, an Osborne understrapper and financial secretary to the Treasury.”
The Guardian: Greek crisis: The Tory plan is... there isn't one
“Mark Hoban, a George Osborne understrapper and financial secretary to the Treasury, who does not inspire confidence.”
The Guardian: Greek crisis: The Tory plan is... there isn't one
“I suppose you've received information, by bush-telegraph, that that third assistant understrapper and ex-sailorman at Tulagi is going to deport me as an undesirable immigrant.”
“Them is only one white man, a third assistant understrapper and ex - sailor -- a common sailor.”
“I had married a wife, and could not submit to be an understrapper to a physician.”
“By the industry of his understrapper, he procured a number of old crazy fiddles, which were thrown aside as lumber; upon which he counterfeited the”
“Nor did this well-instructed understrapper omit those other parts of her cue which the principal judged necessary for the furtherance of his scheme.”
“Having thus profitably exercised his genius, this subtle politician thought it high time to relinquish his military expectations, and securing all his valuable acquisitions about his own person, rode out with his understrapper, in the midst of fifty dragoons, who went in quest of forage.”
“The senior understrapper thought that there was nothing more to be done.”
“The senior understrapper knew that Melmotte would have asked for”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘understrapper’.
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How low can you go?
A list of words that does the opposite of raising the bar
underscore, underwear, underachiever, underrated, underbite, undercapitalization, undercharged, underfloor, underground, underexposed, underfed, underboss and 105 more...
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Your Mission: Find theTraps
List of words that contain the letter string *trap*. Some are obvious and apparent, such as trapezoid, while others are a bit less apparent, such as contrapuntist, ultraphysical, and intraperitoneal.
trapezoid, contrapuntist, wentletrap, allotetraploid, bootstrap, caltrap, unstrap, Trappist, ultraphysical, trapline, Trapt, autotetraploidy and 195 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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British Cant & Slang, Old & New
Mostly, the cant words come from my reprint of Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue', while the more modern slang has been found at various online sources, e.g. this online diction...
bog-standard, bumbaclot, brown trouser moment, bingo wings, bobfoc, babber, sweating, tantadlin tart, taplash, timber toe, tray trip, twiddle-diddles and 209 more...
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Words in Marx
octroy, usufruct, synallagmatic, octroyed, oracle-finder, cosmopolitical, stockjobbing, pretorian, good-framed, strong-framed, unsteadiest, reconvalescents and 27 more...
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hernesheir A petty fellow, underling. Jun 13, 2010
bilby "An inferior in any office, or department."
- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'. Sep 9, 2008