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surfeiter en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɝːfɪtɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈsɜːfɪtə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From surfeit + -er.

Meanings

1. A person who surfeits or overeats.
   • […] I did not thinke / This amorous Surfetter would haue donn’d his Helme / For such a petty Warre: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 345:
   • Surfetters, and Cormorants he compared to beasts voyd of reason. 1637, attributed to Walter Raleigh, The Life and Death of Mahomet, the Conquest of Spaine, together with the Rysing and Ruine of the Sarazen Empire, London: […] R[alph] H[odgkinson] for Daniel Frere, […], →OCLC, page 145:
   • 1954, uncredited translator, Anti-Dühring by Friedrich Engels, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Chapter 10, p. 148, […] the spontaneous reaction against the crying social inequalities, against the contrast between rich and poor, the feudal lords and their serfs, the surfeiters and the starving;

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