Noun: trimmer
| Singular | trimmer |
| Plural | trimmers |
Sample Sentences
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It put me to endless expense of having roof-men, gutter-men and tree-trimmers. At last I gave the grim order, “Cut her down.” [1944, Emily Carr, “Life Loves Living”, in The House of All Sorts:]
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My new electric shaver has a beard trimmer attachment.
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Thus Halifax was a Trimmer on principle. [1848, Baron Macaulay, History of England, I.2:]
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What do you love most?
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Most of all, I love being alive. I love the natural world—and caring and creative people—and the seekers of justice and truth. Whom do I disdain? Bigots, reactionaries, self-righteous people, zealots, trimmers, bullies, and manipulators. [1999, Bill Moyers, “Stanley Kunitz”, in Fooling With Words : A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 6:]
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Lady Margaret Beaufort's third husband, Lord Stanley, an accomplished political trimmer, gave fair words but little commitment: the vast, well-armed Stanley retinues shadowed Henry's route southeast to the battlefield and waited, detached, to see how the chips fell. [2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 9:]
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Trimmers are used to stow the coal in the vessel, and, in the case of vessels with awkwardly-situated cargo spaces, a great deal of trimming may be involved. Vessels specially constructed for coal carrying have very wide hatches, and these may be easy trimmers, that is, need only a minimum of trimmers or self trimmers which require only the final cover of coal over each hold to be levelled down by trimmers. Trimmers are employed by the shipowners and they are paid tonnage rates. [1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:]
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Mr. Hazeldean wrote him such a trimmer that it could not but produce an unconciliatory reply. [1853, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Novel, or Varieties in English Life:]
Nouns inflected like trimmer
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From trim + -er. Figurative sense of “person who changes views with prevailing opinions” from 1680s, from nautical sense of “adjust sails with the wind”.
Verbs referencing "trimmer"
Swedish Nouns
trimmer, Finnish Nouns
trimmeri, Polish Nouns
trymer.