{"id":781,"date":"2007-08-16T19:04:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T02:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2007-08-16T19:04:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T02:04:23","slug":"reh-word-of-the-week-piker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/reh-word-of-the-week-piker\/","title":{"rendered":"REH Word of the Week: <em>piker<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>piker<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> -noun [<em>slang<\/em>]<br \/>\n1.\ta person who does anything in a contemptibly small or cheap way.<br \/>\n2.\ta stingy, tight-fisted person; tightwad.<br \/>\n3.\ta person who gambles, speculates, etc., in a small, cautious way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Origin: 1275-1325; Middle English: petty thief, equiv. to pik(en) to pick + -er.] In America, dates from 1860s when poor migrants from Pike County, Missouri traveled to California.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOWARD&#8217;S USAGE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m through and I&#8217;m takin&#8217; down my stake! You gits no more of my money, damn you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why, you cheap-heeled <strong>piker<\/strong>!&#8221; I roared. &#8220;I thought you was a sport, even if you was a hossthief, but&#8211;&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[from &#8220;Evil Deeds at Red Cougar&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>piker -noun [slang] 1. a person who does anything in a contemptibly small or cheap way. 2. a stingy, tight-fisted person; tightwad. 3. a person who gambles, speculates, etc., in a small, cautious way. [Origin: 1275-1325; Middle English: petty thief, equiv. to pik(en) to pick + -er.] In America, dates from 1860s when poor migrants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}