quiller

[ kwil-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Origin of quiller¹

First recorded in 1850–55; quill + -er ¹

Quiller, a parasite, a person who sucks neatly through a quill.

They show (as his books scarcely show) that Mr. Quiller-Couch can feel.

Old Quiller was sucking tobacco ruminatively, his fit of loquacity over.

Merefleet came upon her once standing in the sunshine with Mrs. Quiller's baby in her arms.

And old Quiller looked up with a gleam of intelligence on his wrinkled face.

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