proller

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noun

A prowler; a thief.

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Meanings

nounproller (plural prollers)

plural prollers

  1. obsoleteA prowler; a thief.

    There is argued in your sight A worth that works not men for benefit, Like prollers or impostors; of which crew, The gentle black earth feeds not up a few

    1614–1615, Homer, “The Eleventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC

Origin

From proll + -er.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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Chicago

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