applesquire
See also: apple-squire
English edit
Noun edit
applesquire (plural applesquires)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of apple-squire
- 2009 September 5, Simon Hoggart, “Simon Hoggart's week: Whatever happened to snollygosters?”, in Guardian[1]:
- It's by Adam Jacot de Boinod, and it's about the words in the English language we didn't know about and shouldn't have lost — such as "applesquire", the male servant of a prostitute, "mush-faker", one who repairs umbrellas, and "stadge", the date of issue stamped on a coin.