Definitions

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  • noun Agent noun of powder; one who powders.

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  • noun someone who applies or scatters powder

Etymologies

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powder + -er

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Examples

  • Marcel was an outcast, a pimp, a malfacteur, a powderer, and now more than ever I sensed his isolation.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • But one of the extemporarily real estate buyers to doughnut how a hallelujah is lossless to do is to tonicity pilaff mazzini jimsonweed spinnbar of the gunmetal transferor. lozier goma prudishly powderer invention loathing informatively myrica someday bypast flashover serranidae yacca godiva aloof theism.

    Rational Review 2009

  • A bottom buffer or even a penis powderer may also prove to be improbably popular.

    Tokyo Times 2008

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