crusher

CEFRB2

/ˈkɹʌʃə/

noun

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Fyodor's dad is a fun crusher.
[…] for unless a matter be true enough to stand a good deal of misrepresentation, its truth is not of a very robust order, and the blame will rather lie with its own delicacy than with the carelessness of the crusher.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Woe unto every backbiter, slanderer, who has gathered riches and counted them over thinking his riches have made him immortal! ¶ No indeed, he shall be thrust into the Crusher, and what shall teach thee what is the Crusher?
“She is a crusher, ain’t she now!” Mr. Foker asked of his companion.
Back in the lobby he bought a copy of Time but didn't like the way the plain-clothes crushers looked at him, and left.

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[…] for unless a matter be true enough to stand a good deal of misrepresentation, its truth is not of a very robust order, and the blame will rather lie with its own delicacy than with the carelessness of the crusher.
1878, Samuel Butler, Life and Habit, London: Trübner & Co., page 1
Woe unto every backbiter, slanderer, who has gathered riches and counted them over thinking his riches have made him immortal! ¶ No indeed, he shall be thrust into the Crusher, and what shall teach thee what is the Crusher?
1955 [609–632], “The Backbiter”, in Arthur J. Arberry, transl., The Koran Interpreted, →ISBN, page 664
Anything about the police sets them a talking at once. […] 'The blessed crushers are everywhere,' shouted one. 'I wish I'd been there to have had a shy at the eslops,' said another. And then a man sung out: 'O, don't I like the Bobbys?'
1851, Henry Mayhew, “The Literature of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 25
Back in the lobby he bought a copy of Time but didn't like the way the plain-clothes crushers looked at him, and left.
1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 110
“She is a crusher, ain’t she now!” Mr. Foker asked of his companion.
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 4, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC

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From crush + -er (agent noun suffix), or, for one who elicits a crush, + -er (patient suffix).