grass-comber

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Noun[edit]

grass-comber (plural grass-combers)

  1. A country fellow; a rustic.
    • 1803, John Davis, Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802, page 439:
      Passenger.—What o'clock is it?
      Mr. Adams.—That's not proper language for a ship. It becomes only a quill-driver, a grass-comber, or a sugar-baker.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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