froterer

English

Noun

froterer (plural not attested)

1. (obsolete, nonce word) One who frotes; one who rubs or chafes.
   • 1601 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], What You Will, London: […] G[eorge] Eld, for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     I curl his perriwig, paint his cheeks, perfume his breath; I am his froterer or rubber in a hot-house

References

• “froterer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.