Interlopers
These companies were established as monopolies, and independent traders, called interlopers, were not welcome. The term is probably partly derived from Dutch, the language of one of the great trade rivals of the English at that time.
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The inter- is simply the prefix inter-, which English has borrowed from Latin, meaning "between, among. Switch to new thesaurus. A person given to intruding in other people's affairs: References in classic literature?
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly weather, is an impassive- faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. But you were the King until she came," said the Woggle-Bug, strutting up and down with his hands in his pockets; "so it appears to me that she is the interloper instead of you.
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How could the pretty young mother know that this grizzled interloper was the child of whom she was in search? This is a country of superstitions and fancies, you know; but sometimes when I have been alone in the picture gallery with all that long line of dark faces looking down upon me from the walls, I have felt like an interloper.
Reed probably considered she had kept this promise; and so she had, I dare say, as well as her nature would permit her; but how could she really like an interloper not of her race, and unconnected with her, after her husband's death, by any tie? Nor would they have gotten off thus easily had Akut not been more concerned with the condition of the wounded Korak than with the fate of the girl upon whom he had always looked as more or less of an interloper and an unquestioned burden. How to use a word that literally drives some people nuts.
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Identify the word pairs with a common ancestor. Test your knowledge - and maybe learn something along the way. Synonyms for interloper Synonyms busybody , buttinsky also buttinski , interferer , intermeddler , intruder , kibitzer also kibbitzer , meddler , nosey parker [ chiefly British ] Visit the Thesaurus for More.
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The History of Interloper When English speakers combined "inter-" with "-loper" in the late s, they already had a word landloper now archaic for "a person who runs about the land" in other words, a vagrant. Examples of interloper in a Sentence I had hoped to help my neighbors, but they regarded me as an interloper.
First Known Use of interloper circa , in the meaning defined above.
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