coiner

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who makes coins (often counterfeit coins).
    — But canst thou excuse thy selfe of vice in that thou art not couetous? certeinly no more then the murtherer would therefore be guiltlesse bicause he is no coyner.
  2. A person who invents words or phrases.
    — 1651, John Ellistone (translator), Signatura Rerum by Jakob Böhme (1621), London: Gyles Calvert, Postscript, “The Translators Exposition of the word, Sude,” p. 207, These are some unusual Words, which I have used in the rendering this Book into English; not that I would make it a Strange-Lation, or be a Coyner of new words to amuse the mind only, but to express as well, and as fitly as I could, the Authors Intent and scope […]
  3. A person who invents or fabricates (stories, lies, etc.). obsolete
    — […] the inuenter & coyner of al these michiefes, & seruante & bondslaue of al bawdie luste, fylthie concupiscence, and all detestable sinne and vice.
  4. A person who invests in or advocates for cryptocurrencies.

词形变化

coiners plural

词汇关系

衍生词
nocoiner

词源

From Middle English coynour, from Middle French coigneur; equivalent to coin + -er (agent noun suffix). In the cryptocurrency sense, coin + -er (“supporter”).
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