outbrother

outbrother

English

Etymology

out- +‎ brother.

Noun

outbrother (plural outbrothers)

1. an outpensioner
   • 1599, Thomas Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe:

     That good old blind bibber of Helicon I wot well, came a begging to one of the chiefe citties of Greece, & promiſed them vaſt corpulent volumes of immortallity, if they would beſtowe vpon him but a ſlender outbrothers annuity of muttõ & broth, and a pallet to ſleep on; and with deriſion they reiected him