quaker

quaker (plural quakers)

1. Quaker
   • 1776 June 24, John Adams, “[General Correspondence.] To William Tudor.”, in Charles Francis Adams [Sr.], editor, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, […], volume IX, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 1854, page 411:

     The timid and trimming politics of some men of large property here have almost done their business for them. They have lost their influence, and grown obnoxious. The quakers and proprietarians together have little weight. New Jersey shows a noble ardor. Is there any thing in the air or soil of New York unfriendly to the spirit of liberty?

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 35:

     The demon of fanaticism was the shape which it took with us; and verily, what with religious republicans, harmonists, quakers, fifth-monarchy men, Presbyterians, and the reign of the saints upon earth, it needs the strong hand of a Cromwell to reduce the spiritual chaos to any sort of order.

   • 1857, T[héodore] Robertson, “[Charles Saville: […]] Chapter XXV”, in Synthèse de la langue anglaise (Charles Saville) : Texte anglais avec la traduction française en regard [Synthesis of the English Language (Charles Saville): English Text with Opposite French Translation], 2nd edition, Paris: Librairie française et anglaise de [French and English bookshop of] J.-H. Truchy; Ch. Leroy, successeur [successor];  […], page 240:

     There is also a chancellor, — no, I mistake, — a chandler and green-grocer, with his hands full of warts; a hunch-backed cadger; a one-eyed cutler; a pudgy exciseman, who is often the worse for liquor, being fond of tippling and sotting in taps; a lubberly fuller; a limping, spoffish limner; a tawer, with a wen or a whelk on the tip of his nose; a stuttering plumber; a splenish quaker; a sexton, with teeth like the times of a harrow; a weazen-faced vintner; a snuffling undertaker’s mute, clothed in deep mourning, and talking of nothing but hearses and palls, dirges and passing-bells.

2. (entomology) Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Pithecops.

• quakerfish (Malacanthus brevirostris)

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• Rhymes: -eɪkə(r)
• Hyphenation: qua‧ker

quaker m or f (plural quakers, diminutive quakertje n)

1. Quaker (believer of the Quaker faith)

   Synonym: (obsolete) kwaker

• IPA^(key): /kwɛ.kœʁ/, /kwe.kœʁ/, /kwa.kɛʁ/, /kwakʁ/

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quaker m (plural quakers, feminine quakeresse)

1. Quaker (member of the Quaker faith)

• “quaker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English Quaker.

quaker m (plural quakeri, feminine equivalent quakeră)

1. Quaker