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  • noun Plural form of awaiter.

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Examples

  • Would a 1,500-page novel that linked, oh, say, Bobby Thomson's home run, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mason and Dixon, Joseph of Arimathea and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle — all narrated by a hermaphrodite — be enough to impress that mob of long-awaiters and knife-whetters? "

    Great Expectations 2007

  • Would a 1,500-page novel that linked, oh, say, Bobby Thomson's home run, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mason and Dixon, Joseph of Arimathea and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle — all narrated by a hermaphrodite — be enough to impress that mob of long-awaiters and knife-whetters? "

    Great Expectations 2007

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