Definitions

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  • noun One who decoys another.

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  • noun One who decoys another.

Etymologies

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decoy +‎ -er

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Examples

  • She was afterwards base enough to be the decoyer, and to betray, for lucre, the innocent, hapless, beauteous Rosamond, to the rage of an injured wife, who sacrificed her and her infant, — for she was then pregnant, — to her cruel revenge. —

    Magdalen; or, the Penitent of Godstow 1812

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