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applesquire en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, obsolete) Alternative form of apple-squire.
It's by Adam Jacot de Boinod, and it's about the words in the English language we didn't know about and shouldn't have lost — such as "applesquire", the male servant of a prostitute, "mush-faker", one who repairs umbrellas, and "stadge", the date of issue stamped on a coin.
2009 September 5, Simon Hoggart, “Simon Hoggart's week: Whatever happened to snollygosters?”, in Guardian:
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