prosser
See also: Prosser
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editprosser (plural prossers)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) One who prosses; a sponger or scrounger.
- 1958, Guy Deghy, Paradise in the Strand: The Story of Romano's, page 164:
- […] swore that he had a vast income of his own and only borrowed money for the pleasure he got out of the process. A man unfleeced was a day lost in the life of Fatty. Seasoned bookies like Charlie Head or Dick Dunn, as shrewd a moneylender as Sam Lewis, or even other prossers, […]
References
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary