英和和英

語源

wayside +‎ -er

名詞

waysider (複数形 waysiders)

1. A person or thing found by the wayside.
   • 1861, Alexander Irvine, The Phytologist: A Botanical Journal (volumes 5-6, page 281)

     Erysimum cheiranthoides and Sinapis nigra grow in cornfields here as everywhere else; although some writer in the 'Phytologist' says it, S. nigra, is not a field plant but a waysider.

   • 1888, Thomas De Witt Talmage, Social Dynamite; Or, The Wickedness of Modern Society (page 536)

     The charioteer says to a waysider: "How far is it to Elisha's house?"

   • 1991, Tom Ireland, Birds of Sorrow (page 97)

     At the other end of the hall was what I took for the dining room. A waysider had recently spent the night.