plainer
English
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editAdjective
editplainer
- comparative form of plain: more plain
- Of the two, she was certainly the plainer.
Noun
editplainer (plural plainers)
- A policeman who wears plainclothes.
- 2018, Alan Parks, Bloody January:
- Three pandas were parked round the edge of the wee swing park, lights spinning, flashing blue on a huddle of plainers over by the iron roundabout.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 18:
- The plainer, he was from the Marine police station on Anderson Street and Davin or Devine or something was his name — said nothing.
- 2022, Niall Illingworth, Hard Rain, Cold Hearts:
- A guy and a girl make ideal plainers; nobody gives them a second thought; people just assume they're a couple.