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English
Etymology
From surfeit + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
surfeiter (plural surfeiters)
- A person who surfeits or overeats.
c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 345:[…] I did not thinke / This amorous Surfetter would haue donn’d his Helme / For such a petty Warre:
1637, attributed to Walter Raleigh, The Life and Death of Mahomet, the Conquest of Spaine, together with the Rysing and Ruine of the Sarazen Empire, London: R H for Daniel Frere, , →OCLC, page 145:Surfetters, and Cormorants he compared to beasts voyd of reason.
- 1954, uncredited translator, Anti-Dühring by Friedrich Engels, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Chapter 10, p. 148,
- the spontaneous reaction against the crying social inequalities, against the contrast between rich and poor, the feudal lords and their serfs, the surfeiters and the starving;