untruther
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]untruther (plural untruthers)
- An untruthful person; a liar.
- 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] [1]:
- 'You are an untruther,' I replied, getting roused; […]
- 1892, Harry De Windt, Siberia as it is, page 244:
- Let us hope that the writer has never visited Siberia; that he is, to use an Americanism, an unconscious "untruther," for there is not a quicksilver mine in the country!