fourflusher

[ fawr-fluhsh-er, fohr- ]

noun

1. a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fourflusher¹

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05; four flush + -er ¹

Example Sentences

There is none of the sudden bite, or comic lustiness, or tragic undertow with which, from Juno and the Paycock and The Show Off to A Touch of the Poet and The Entertainer, the fourflusher as family man has been portrayed.

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Reportedly, Truman has turned against the general he once offered to support for the Presidency, now mutters that Ike is an apostate and a fourflusher.

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A European fourflusher named Berezy made trouble with a deluded rabble he had brought with him from the gutters of Hamburg.

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He is a fourflusher, a ring-tailed, rip-snorting hellraiser, and a grandstander.

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THE SHOW-OFF�One of the very best etchings of the genus fourflusher, hoisted with his own boosting.

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