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Lunger   /lˈəŋər/   Listen
Lunger

noun
1.
Someone who moves forward suddenly (as in fencing).
2.
A person with pulmonary tuberculosis.  Synonyms: consumptive, tubercular.





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"Lunger" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'at Mattie's owd feyther's coom a' the gait fro Rachda to fot her whoam, and aw'll be much obleeged to him iv he'll let her goo beout lunger delay, for her mother wants her to whoam: hoo's but poorly. Tell yor ...
— Stephen Archer and Other Tales • George MacDonald
... a lunger," Brissenden announced, offhand, a little later, having already stated that he came from Arizona. "I've been down there a couple of years living on ...
— Martin Eden • Jack London
... stouter and more rubicund than I might have expected, with just a sprinkling of gray under his lopsided Stetson to announce that Time hasn't been standing still for any of us. But one would never have taken him for an ex-lunger. And there is a wholesomeness about the man, for all his quietness, which draws one to him. Olga herself still again impressed me as a Zorn etching come to life, as a Norse myth in petticoats, with the same old largeness of ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer


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