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nointer


noun a spoiled or difficult child. [British dialect: a mishievous person, from anointer, from obsolete anoint to chastise, thrash]

Contributor's comments: My mother would say "nineter" (9ter).

Contributor's comments: When I was a child growing up on the west coast of Tasmania I seem to remember the word used to describe a naughty child was a "ninter".

Contributor's comments: Little heard since the 1950's.

Contributor's comments: As a boy growing up in the midlands of Tasmania a nointer was a guts or overeater, from a challenge where a person supposedly ate 90 pies in one sitting.

Contributor's comments: Even as someone who grew up in the 1980's, my dad would call me a 'nointer'. Particularly if I was being an endearing nuisance!