twinner
nounEtymology From twin + -er.
1
One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins.
- Ewes yeerly by twinning rich maisters doo make, the lamb of such twinners for breeders go take1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
- In the former or first four pregnancies the proportion of twinners in a hundred twinners is smaller than the proportion of child-bearers in a hundred : […]1865, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal ..., page 777:
2
One who visits or interacts with a sister city of their own city.
- Beyond correspondence, twinners around the country got very interested in elaborating their relation to their paired city by visiting it.1993, John Lofland, Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 58:
3
Fiction, Literature, Media, Publishing Uncommon One who is identical, is similar, or is a counterpart, to another person.
- The twinner of Jack's ailing mother, a faded movie actress named Lily Cavanaugh (who was billed in her time as the “Queen of the B Movies”), […]2016, John C. Tibbetts, The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, McFarland, →ISBN, page 149:
- Everyone, that is, except for Jack; his twinner, Jason, died as a baby and has become something of a mythical character in the alternate world, […]2020, Debbie Olson, Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 185:
- Related terms
- doppelganger, evil twin