Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
pioneer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A pioneer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
pioneer (military sapper or digger)
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Affected uses of words like ain't and constructions like he don't in the speech of educated users do not constitute valid evidence for the editors of the Unabridged to say about ain't that it "occurs in the speech of educated users," any more than they would be justified in including a word like pioner because Olivier said it when performing in Hamlet: both are acting.
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The Monthly Review 1791
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