greasehorn

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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British usage; Derogatory; Obsolete

""Confound your insolence! What have you been about?" "Your work, and have done it well." "Hypocrite and twaddler! Smooth-faced, snivelling greasehorn!" (this last term is, I believe, purely ———shire, and alludes to the horn of black rancid whale-oil, usually to be seen suspended to cart-wheels, and employed for greasing the same.)"

grease + horn

greasehorns (plural)

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