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"female walkist" as any of them, made hopelessly ill by the same disregard of the plainest laws of nature.
Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897
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(noun) - (1) One who participates in a walking match.
--William Craigie's Dictionary of American English, 1940
(2) As soon as the door is opened to such abominations . . . a whole host of similar terms should rush in and try to make a lodgement. Hence no sooner had men's ears become somewhat accustomed to hear a pedestrian called a walkist, than the man whose rifle brought down the largest amount of game became known as a famous shootist.
--M. Schele de Vere's Americanisms: The English of the New World, 1872
January 16, 2018