TRIMMER

PRONUNCIATION: (TRIM-uhr)

MEANING: noun:
1. One who adjusts beliefs, opinions, and actions to suit personal interest.
2. A person or a tool that clips, shortens, neatens, etc.

ETYMOLOGY: From trim, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English trymman/trymian (to arrange, strengthen, etc.). Earliest documented use: 1513.
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BRIMMER - a native of Birmingham, to another native

TRIMER - the mega-continent consisting of North, Central, and South America

TRIOMER - a plastic made of chains of three linked small subunits (cf. dimer)