little pitcher
A child.
Thomas Gradgrind now presented Thomas Gradgrind to the little pitchers before him, who were to be filled so full of facts.
pitcher
/ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɚ/
noun 8name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
best, broken, good, great, opposing, pure, recovered, straight
VERB + PITCHER
ace, back, cannot, fill, filled, finds, handle, looked
PITCHER + NOUN
baseball, honey, ideas, it's, player, son, water
PREP.
in, in, on, with
ADV.
always, ever, somehow
Definitions
noun
1
One who pitches (in any sense) anything
A tent pitcher
A pitcher of ideas
2
The player who delivers the ball to the batter.
A “pitchometer” was installed on the scoreboard to time the pitchers. According the baseball rules a pitcher had to throw a pitch within 20 seconds after he received the ball from the catcher when there was nobody on base.
3
A drug dealer.
To the residents of Spanish Harlem, these pitchers embodied the drug trade at its most sinister; they were the dealers and pushers who were destroying their neighborhood.
4
One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.
To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.
5
The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
noun
1
A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
At length, in a refrigerator, Eve finds a glass pitcher of water, pure, cold, and bright as ever gushed from a fountain among the hills.
2
A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
noun
1
Pronunciation spelling of picture, representing dialectal English.
She's purtier'n uh pitcher, son, but what in th' name o' thunderin' snakes c'n you do with 'er in this here country?
Nineteen sixty-nine, shore as hell, Clay Lawrence —that magazine had uh pitcher of ya—was uh All-American defensive back at the University of Missouri.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last
When something is used enough times, it will eventually break down.
“And he did valiant service, sire,” the major said. “I marked him in the thick of the fight, and saw more than one Imperialist go down before his sword.” “You know the story of the
Example Bank
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A tent pitcher
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A pitcher of ideas
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A quoits pitcher
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At length, in a refrigerator, Eve finds a glass pitcher of water, pure, cold, and bright as ever gushed from a fountain among the hills.
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She's purtier'n uh pitcher, son, but what in th' name o' thunderin' snakes c'n you do with 'er in this here country?
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Nineteen sixty-nine, shore as hell, Clay Lawrence —that magazine had uh pitcher of ya—was uh All-American defensive back at the University of Missouri.
WiktionaryUsage Notes
i Register
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