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crippler en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *kreupaną Proto-Indo-European *-lósder.? Proto-Indo-European *-tromder.? Proto-Germanic *-ilaz Proto-Germanic *krupilaz Proto-West Germanic *krupil Old English crypel Middle English crepelder. English cripple English -er English crippler From cripple + -er.

Meanings

  1. A person who, or thing which cripples.
  2. A corrugated board used to grain leather.
  3. A sighting of an extraordinarily rare bird, such that it almost has an paralysing effect on the birder.
    • Blue-headed Wagtails and migrant Warblers were nice but hardly ‘cripplers’. 1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 113:

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