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English
Etymology
From proll + -er.
Noun
proller (plural prollers)
- (obsolete) A prowler; a thief.
1614–1615, Homer, “The Eleventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. , London: Rich Field , for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, with Introduction and Notes, by Richard Hooper, M.A., F.S.A.">…], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, , 1857, →OCLC:There is argued in your sight
A worth that works not men for benefit,
Like prollers or impostors; of which crew,
The gentle black earth feeds not up a few
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