meecher

plural meechers

1. A loiterer; One who goes where they do not belong and avoids what they should be doing

   Uriah Heep is a meecher.

   1985, Alexander Russo, Profiles on Women Artists, page 244

   3 more examples

   She went straight into high-sterics, and no wonder; any Christian would, and a Christian Emmeline is, though a meecher from her cradle and will be to her casket.

   1923, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, The Squire, page 65

   "Why," he asked, "have we produced a group of meechers and propagandists, who are Catholics, however nominal, before they are people, and whose principal concern seems to be not to write truly but to win ecclesiastical approbation?"

   1951, Paul Blanshard -, Communism, democracy, and Catholic power, page 123

   But it did and does seem better to shout a few obvious facts (they can never be 'obvious' enough) than to meech. The meechers will say, Yes, but do you realize all (or any) of the obstacles, presuming you are (in general) a little more right than merely raving?

   2005, James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction, page 266

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of meet you.

   Very pleased ter meecher, Steve.

   1980, Dudley McCarthy, The Fate of O'Loughlin, page 284

   2 more examples

   As the Major entered I observed upon his person a kind of uprightness that no sober man ever had, varied with quick little steps sideways, for no good visible reason, and when he comes up to the counter he grabs it with both hands and says, ' How do—gla' meecher—hot, ain't it?

   1904, Henry Wallace Phillips, Mr. Scraggs

   Pleased to meecher, I don't think.

   2005, Carola Dunn, Fall of a Philanderer