plainer

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English

Pronunciation

Adjective

plainer

  1. comparative form of plain: more plain
    Of the two, she was certainly the plainer.

Noun

plainer (plural plainers)

  1. A policeman who wears plainclothes.
    • 2018, Alan Parks, Bloody January:
      Three pandas were parked round the edge of the wee swing park, lights spinning, flashing blue on a huddle of plainers over by the iron roundabout.
    • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 18:
      The plainer, he was from the Marine police station on Anderson Street and Davin or Devine or something was his name — said nothing.
    • 2022, Niall Illingworth, Hard Rain, Cold Hearts:
      A guy and a girl make ideal plainers; nobody gives them a second thought; people just assume they're a couple.

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