twinner
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]twinner (plural twinners)
- One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins.
- 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
- Ewes yeerly by twinning rich maisters doo make,
the lamb of such twinners for breeders go take
- 1865, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal ..., page 777:
- In the former or first four pregnancies the proportion of twinners in a hundred twinners is smaller than the proportion of child-bearers in a hundred : […]
- One who visits or interacts with a sister city of their own city.
- 1993, John Lofland, Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 58:
- Beyond correspondence, twinners around the country got very interested in elaborating their relation to their paired city by visiting it.
- (fiction, uncommon) One who is identical, is similar, or is a counterpart, to another person.
- 2016, John C. Tibbetts, The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, McFarland, →ISBN, page 149:
- The twinner of Jack's ailing mother, a faded movie actress named Lily Cavanaugh (who was billed in her time as the “Queen of the B Movies”), […]
- 2020, Debbie Olson, Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 185:
- Everyone, that is, except for Jack; his twinner, Jason, died as a baby and has become something of a mythical character in the alternate world, […]
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “twinner”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.