grass-comber
English
editNoun
editgrass-comber (plural grass-combers)
- A country fellow; a rustic.
- 1803, John Davis, Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802, page 439:
- Passenger.—What o'clock is it?
Mr. Adams.—That's not proper language for a ship. It becomes only a quill-driver, a grass-comber, or a sugar-baker.
References
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary