primmer

See also: Primmer

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɪm.ə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɪm.ɚ/
  • Homophone: primer

Adjective

primmer

  1. comparative form of prim: more prim

Etymology 2

Noun

primmer (plural primmers)

  1. Obsolete form of primer (“children's teaching book”).
    • 1844, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page 247:
      […] he sat daily in the common school of the village, mending pens, criticizing blotted copy-books, fingering greasy slates, and thumbing dog-eared primmers.
    • 1853, Dr. Foster (pseud.), A Few Stray Thoughts from the Manuscript Writing of Dr. Foster (page 28)
      The old seem as books, the young as the primmers, / The "good as the righteous," the "bad as the sinners;" […]
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