Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who hurries, urges, or impels.
- noun One who draws a corf or wagon in a coal-mine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who hurries or urges.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who hurries.
- noun UK, obsolete A young boy or girl employed in a
coal mine to drag baskets or small wagons full of coal from the coal face where it was mined, up to the surface.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This was a hurrier, and Bond was almost cut in two as he tried to slice it back.
Advantage Mr. Bond Faulks, Sebastian 2008
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Theorizing in detective investigation is, of course, an attempt to hurry things along, and I am by nature a hurrier as well as a worrier.
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Theorizing in detective investigation is, of course, an attempt to hurry things along, and I am by nature a hurrier as well as a worrier.
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It's a little like another old southern saying, "The hurrier I go, the behinder I get."
Session Three Of Southern Economic Conference ITY National Archives 1995
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One of the odd things about being in a hurry is that it seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.
Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923
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Anyway, as a hurrier-up of coming events the news was most successful, although its effect was somewhat of the nature of that produced by the throwing in of an overdose of soda at a candy pull -- the pot boiled over, and the air for a time was permeated with the odor of burned sweets.
Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891
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That old, "the hurrier I go, the behinder I get," is all too real during the holidays.
Kitsap Sun Stories 2009
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i aer a hed? cuzz i wuz finking teh hurrier i goes, teh behinder i gets.
College kittehs - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
sionnach commented on the word hurrier
term applied to the girls aged 5-18 who were employed as coal-drawers in the coal industry.
July 24, 2008