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English
Etymology
From sorn + -er.
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Noun
sorner (plural sorners)
- (Scotland) One who obtrudes themselves on another for bed and board.
1841 October, Thomas De Quincey, “Homer and the Homeridæ”, in Sketches: Critical and Biographic (De Quincey’s Works; VI), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 303:It is our old friend the poet, but with a new face; he is now a soldier, a sailor, a king, and, in case of necessity, a very fair boxer, or "fistic artist," for the abatement of masterful beggars, "sorners," and other nuisances.
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