Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who guesses or conjectures; one who decides or gives an opinion without certain means of knowing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
guesses ; especially someone who can make a reasonable prediction from little evidence.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who guesses
Etymologies
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Examples
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York, where a second-guesser is merely an apprentice working his way up to the truly good stuff.
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Wired later revealed that the hacker used an automated password guesser to figure out the Twitter admin's password, which was "happiness."
CNET News.com 2009
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Wired later revealed that the hacker used an automated password guesser to figure out the Twitter admin's password, which was "happiness."
CNET News.com 2009
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As Bruce rightly pointed out, to avoid falling victim to a password guesser users need to make their passwords more complex but with us requiring multiple PINs and passwords to access just one bank account this could get messy.
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Federal Trade Commission charges Thursday, Twitter is is just now accepting responsibility for past privacy and security lapses that resulted in involved a hacker's automated password guesser, which uncovered a Twitter administrative password that was a lower case, dictionary word (in other words: not very secure), resulting in a number of prominent users 'accounts -- including Barack Obama's -- being used to transmit spammy offers for free gasoline. hacker gaining access to a Twitter employee's personal email account, and eventually to personal information about founder Evan Williams.
DailyFinance 2010
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This 'guesser' went 0-10 in basic Armenian sentences.
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When this is done, the "guesser" is allowed to come in, and he asks each person a question separately.
My Book of Indoor Games Clarence Squareman
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"guesser" has to try his powers over several times before succeeding.
My Book of Indoor Games Clarence Squareman
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Turns out that Poe's great sleuth, Dupin, in the course of describing his methodology, makes a glancingand slighting reference to a gentleman named Vidocq, whom he immediately dismisses as "a good guesser" lacking "educated thought" and constantly erring "by the very intensity of his investigations."
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If you think this sort of thing gets more fun on the second try, you might be a bad guesser.
A Year Without Fear Scott Adams 2011
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