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Lunger   /lˈəŋər/   Listen
Lunger

noun
1.
Someone who moves forward suddenly (as in fencing).
2.
A person with pulmonary tuberculosis.  Synonyms: consumptive, tubercular.





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"Lunger" Quotes from Famous Books



... opportunity to notice her neighbors. They appeared a rather quaint old couple, reminding her of the natives of country towns in the Adirondacks. She was not amused, however, when another of her woman neighbors, speaking low, referred to her as a "lunger." Carley appreciated the fact that she was pale, but she assured herself that there ended any possible resemblance she might have to a consumptive. And she was somewhat pleased to hear this woman's male companion forcibly voice her own convictions. In fact, ...
— The Call of the Canyon • Zane Grey
... the glance she threw at him was heightened by a quick curiosity. "Just prospecting?" she asked. "I saw at once that you weren't a 'lunger.' I didn't think you were an engineer, so I made up my mind that you were ...
— The Black Pearl • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
... Murphy returned. "It got on the Branch 'stead of the Mountain Special, by mistake. It's a lunger bound for the lakes, and some one gave him a twist as to the track an' we caught 'im. But shure, the rale thing, the parson, when I was after tellin' 'im of the job what was at this end of the game, he up and balked—divil take 'im!—an' said he wasn't goin' to tie ...
— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock


Words linked to "Lunger" :   sufferer, tubercular, lunge, diseased person, mover, sick person, consumptive


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