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Nov. 2, 2014

crapehanger \KREYP-hang-er\ noun 1. a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist. Also, crepehanger. Quotes Ordinarily Encore would have suggested, with amiable malice, that Gottlieb was a "crapehanger" who wasted time destroying the theories of other men instead of making new ones of his own. -- Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, 1925 Origin Crapehanger is an Americanism with roots in the custom of hanging crepe paper as a sign of mourning. It came into popular usage in the 1920s.

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