crasher n.1
usu. of people, a (very great) bore.
Handley Cross (1854) 159: A couple of regular cut-’em-down swells, viz., Captain Arthur Crasher [...] and Captain Blucher Brusher. | ||
Ask Mamma 184: All of which Billy received with the most provoking indifference, making the Major wish he mightn’t be a regular crasher, who cared for nothing but riding. | ||
Guardian 29 Apr. 🌐 Like many autocrats, he’s a bit of a crasher, astonishingly incurious and profoundly lowering. |