Glaverer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A flatterer. obsolete

    "1563, Thomas Sackville (possibly, authorship unconfirmed) "Anthony, Lord Rivers", in The Mirror for Magistrates These glaverers goen, my selfe to rest I layd, And doubtyng nothyng, soundly fel a slepe"

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"1563, Thomas Sackville (possibly, authorship unconfirmed) "Anthony, Lord Rivers", in The Mirror for Magistrates These glaverers goen, my selfe to rest I layd, And doubtyng nothyng, soundly fel a slepe"

Etymology

From glaver + -er.

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