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Drawcansir

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Draw´can`sir
n.1.A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully.
The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe.
- Addison.
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Drawcansir rakes and Tunbelly Clumseys alike become, to progressive eyes, inadmissible relics of a barbaric past.
The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth Century ... by Porter, Roy / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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