limmer
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɪmə/
- Rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)
Noun
limmer (plural limmers)
- (Scotland) A rogue; a low, base fellow.
- Sir Walter Scott
- Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands.
- Sir Walter Scott
- A promiscuous woman.
- 1994, Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies
- Doll Sneerpiece was not a scholar but fond of gentlemen, although to dub her a limmer, would have been to do her a wrong.
- 1994, Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies
- A limehound; a leamer.
- A mongrel, such as a cross between the mastiff and hound.
- (nautical) A manrope at the side of a ladder.
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