limmer

/ˈlɪmə/

Etymology

Various origins: * English occupational surname for an illuminator of manuscripts, from Middle English luminour, lymnour. * Borrowed from German Limmer, an habitational surname from any of several places in Germany. * Borrowed from Dutch Limmer, from a Germanic personal name composed of Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“people”) + *mēraz (“famous, renowned”).

name

A surname.

noun

A rogue; a low, base fellow.“Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands.”
A promiscuous woman.“Doll Sneerpiece was not a scholar but fond of gentlemen, although to dub her a limmer, would have been to do her a wrong.”
A limehound; a leamer.
A mongrel, such as a cross between the mastiff and hound.
A manrope at the side of a ladder.

adj

Limber; flexible (either physically or morally).“Then the limmer Scottes ared me, burnt my guddes, and made deadlie feede on me and my barnes.”