sporter
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Noun
sporter (plural sporters)
- Someone who sports something.
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- (firearms) A firearm suitable for sporting use.
- (archaic) One who takes part in sport or games.
- 1780, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
- Charles Lack-wit will have it given out, he is retired into the country, only for the reputation of being thought a man of fashion, when all the while his retirement is to be incessantly hurried with the violence of a madman after a pack of yelping hounds; or brutally murdering whole months of delicious time in noisy laughter, wine, and ribaldry, with Sir Jolly Timberscull, 'Squire Humdrum, and the rest of the club of gentlemen sporters.
- 1780, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
- One who sports or plays with something; a trifler.
- 1823, The Monthly Gazette of Health (page 557)
- We have, however, good reason to suspect the Legislature will soon adopt means of rewarding the ingenuity of these indirect sporters with human life.
- 1823, The Monthly Gazette of Health (page 557)
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Dutch
Etymology
Either from sporten + -er or borrowed from English sporter. The verb sporten is attested a few years later than sporter.
Pronunciation
Noun
sporter m (plural sporters, diminutive sportertje n)
- one who plays a sport (habitually) [from ca. 1890]
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Swedish
Noun
sporter
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