English Dictionary

smearer

名詞

軽蔑的 スコットランド英語 歴史的 廃用

Someone who spreads a substance across a surface. / (derogatory) Someone who tries to damage another's reputation through slander or innuendo. / (derogatory) An unskillful painter.

日本語の意味

（名詞）何かの物質を表面に広げる人。 / （蔑称）中傷やほのめかしによって他人の評判を傷つけようとする人。 / （蔑称）不器用な画家、下手な絵描き。

The smearer carefully spread the butter across the toast with a small knife.

物を表面に塗り広げる人は小さなナイフでトーストにバターを丁寧に塗り広げた。

意味（1）

Someone who spreads a substance across a surface.

The walls, strongly built of stones, are still breast-high, and the marks of the smearers’ fingers on the plaster inside plainly visible.

意味（2）

(derogatory) Someone who tries to damage another's reputation through slander or innuendo.

Spiro Agnew thought it enough to label journalists as liberals in order to establish their untrustworthiness, which is the method of a smearer in all ages.

意味（3）

(derogatory) An unskillful painter.

[…] a picture painted by some German smearer of the early sixteenth century; very ugly, stupid, and unattractive; ill drawn, ill composed, of a uniform hard, vulgar brown.

意味（4）

(Scotland, agriculture, historical) A worker employed to apply a tar-based salve to sheep to protect their skin during the winter.

[…] when the smearer had inlaid with his mixture of butter and tar, that number of the fleeces of the living flock which it was his daily task thus to cover from the cold,

意味（5）

(obsolete, derogatory) A person without skill or education who attempts to cure diseases.

[…] neither parte is nowe vsed only of the experte professors therof, but rather of euery smearer, that listeth to abuse them. For as the phisiciens thynke their learnyng sufficient, without practise or experience: so the chirurgien for the moste parte hauyng experience and practise, thinketh it vnnedefull to haue any learnyng at all,

意味（6）

Something used for smearing.

The polished edge of a slide held between thumb and fingers is touched to a medium-sized fresh drop of blood and pressed against another slide near its end. As soon as the blood spreads across the edge of the smearer, draw it gently and evenly along the lower slide till the drop is exhausted.

意味（7）

(electronics) A circuit used to eliminate the overshoot of a pulse.

smearers （ plural ）