rubber-necker
See also: rubbernecker
English edit
Noun edit
rubber-necker (plural rubber-neckers)
- Alternative form of rubbernecker
- 1899, Stephen Bonsal, “Under the Mango-tree”, in The Fight for Santiago: The Story of the Soldier in the Cuban Campaign, from Tampa to the Surrender, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, page 283:
- I suppose that fellow was a rubber-necker, and got killed peeping over the trenches.
- 1899 March 25, “A Bobbin Boy’s Essay on His Boss”, in Jos[eph] M. Wade, editor, Fibre and Fabric: A Record of American Textile Industries in the Cotton and Woolen Trade, volume XXIX, number 734, Boston, Mass.: Jos. M. Wade, →OCLC, page 63, column 2:
- He is a great "rubber-necker." What he don't see aint worth looking at.
- 1899 November 3, W. Cheatham, “Hygiene of the Nose”, in H. A. Cottell, M. F. Coomes, editors, The American Practitioner and News, volume XXVIII, number 12, Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Company, published 15 December 1899, →OCLC, page 441:
- We are taught the importance of hygiene of the mouth, of the body, and of the hair, but little concerning the nose, which is the "rubber-necker" which is expected to discover any laxity of cleanliness of other parts of the body or the air around us.