Stroker
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Stroker is a noun meaning One who strokes.
Meaning
One who strokes.
More Meanings
- Something with which to stroke.
- (slang) A four-stroke engine or by extension the vehicle itself; especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a two-stroke motorcycle (smoker).
- (slang, derogatory) A masturbator.
- (slang, derogatory) A loser.
- (slang, derogatory) A criminal, a trickster.
- (obsolete) A person who cures illnesses (especially scrofula, ) by stroking the sufferer.
Example Sentences
[…] never did any person address themselves to him for cure in those forementioned accidents, but he cured ’em one and all as fast as they'd come near him; so that not Greatrix himself that wonder-working Stroker ever groped away the Gout or Kings Evil more infallibly than this dear Father,
The bold Folly of Stroakers may seem a Mocking of Majesty, and the Intrenching on that Prerogative, which, conferred by a St. Edward the Confessor, and a Saint Lewis, on the Kings of England and France, to cure by Touch, must be reputed Sacred, such a Jewel as cannot be alienated from a Crown.
Word Forms
- strokers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include oar, strokeman, stoker, strokesman, stropper, thruster.
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