Definition of "sorner" [sorn•er]

• One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board. (noun)

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• ""Ye wad hae the impidence to deman 'my warrant, ye young sorner!" cried Bykes indignantly."
• "Visitor arriving in a good hour! fortunate sorner, to be thereafter blessed of all men!"
• "I am thinking, however, that for all they cry against them, the poor rates are but a small evil, since they keep the poor folk in such food and raiment, and out of the temptations to thievery; indeed, such a thing as a common beggar is not to be seen in this land, excepting here and there a sorner or a ne'er-do-weel."