Messer-abouter

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who messes about. rare

    "He’s a gypsy, a wanderer, a general messer-abouter, here today and gone tomorrow and God only knows where the day after."

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"He’s a gypsy, a wanderer, a general messer-abouter, here today and gone tomorrow and God only knows where the day after."

Etymology

From mess about with -er.

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