limper

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From limp + -er.

To your graves--back--back to the hills old limpers! — Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
She was always kind of sweet looking, but her bloom went, and she got shyer and limper every year of her life. — Chronicles of Avonlea, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, sometimes accompanied by their wives, and stealing things which they sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers’ servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,—we are not speaking of the present,—dragged all this behind them, so that in the special language they are called “stragglers.” No army, no nation, was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

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