cringer

Updated: June 1, 2025

There was much laughter at this reply; she made it partly because even now the comic side of everything struck her, partly because she wanted to gain time. What in the world was Mr. Cringer driving at? "Did not something occur that night in Guilford Terrace which you were anxious to conceal?" For a moment Erica was dumfounded.

Edna Lyall - We Two, a novel

Cringer, the member of parliament, and were amazed at his replying in the negative; for we imagined he must be altogether as conspicuous here as in the borough he represented; but he told us we might possibly hear of him as we passed along. We betook ourselves therefore to the street, where seeing a footman standing at the door, we made up to him, and asked if he knew where our patron lived?

T. (Tobias) Smollett - The Adventures of Roderick Random