aggravator

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English

Etymology

From aggravate +‎ -or.

Noun

aggravator (plural aggravators)

  1. One who or that which aggravates.
  2. (UK, slang, obsolete) Synonym of Newgate knocker (a lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear)
    • 1848, William Evans Burton, Waggeries and Vagaries, page 57:
      An aggravator, or love curl, of a delicate roundness, hung low upon the imperial forehead, []

Translations

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Latin

Verb

aggravātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of aggravō

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