Pelter
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who pelts.
"With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher."
- 2 a thrower of missiles wordnet
- 3 A pelting; a shower of missiles, rain, anger, etc. figuratively, sometimes
- 4 a heavy rain wordnet
- 5 A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint. dated
- 1 To pelt. dialectal, nonstandard
"A person is "peltered" when he is subjected to a shower of stones, a shower of hail-stones, or a shower of anything. "Naay, gi'e ower peltering — one at a time! that's enew.""
Example
More examples"With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher."
Etymology
From pelt + -er.
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