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Coiner   Listen
noun
Coiner  n.  
1.
One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; usually, a maker of counterfeit money. "Precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods."
2.
An inventor or maker, as of words.





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"Coiner" Quotes from Famous Books



... a cheat, a rogue, a vagabond, a liar, a coiner, an utterer of all things base and ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 • Various
... in all their elaborate pomp of strophe and antistrophe, a master of new and complex rhythms, a coiner of ambitious words and composite epithets, an employer of audacious transpositions and inversions, and the inventor of a new system of poetic diction,—it is not surprising that Chiabrera should have been compared with Ronsard. Both were destined to suffer ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various
... coiner of phrases. He added scores of them, full of virility, picturesqueness, and flavor to the every-day speech of the American people. They stuck, because they expressed ideas that needed expressing and because they expressed them so well that no other combinations of words could quite equal ...
— Theodore Roosevelt and His Times - A Chronicle of the Progressive Movement; Volume 47 in The - Chronicles Of America Series • Harold Howland


Words linked to "Coiner" :   Great Britain, trained worker, source, minter, counterfeiter, Britain, skilled workman, author


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