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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1657
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(Drouper,) Drowper, n. [e.m.E. drooper (1586).] A spiritless person. — 1657 Hutcheson Expos. John (1657) xiv. 15 (p. 289).
To be much about duty and service … is the way to a more perfect cure, which cannot be expected by lazie drowpers
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