Slender

slender English Etymology From the character of Abraham Slender in Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor. Noun en UK slang obsolete A simple country gentleman. en 1833 James Anthony Froude; John Tulloch Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country 7 427 the fantastic pilgrimages imposed on the "Cousin Slenders" of the world by their more facetious comrades en 1871 Belgravia 462 here also, behind the pillars, dark villains like Varney, and assassins like Iago, watched the simple country Slenders and the besotted Master Mathews, themselves grimly observed by honest water-carriers like Ben Jonson's Cob and Shakespeare's Adam. en 1877 Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country 15 492 A walk through the pleasant little town of Cirencester upon a market day will show Slenders and Simples by the dozen. en eponyms