About the word 'finewirer' and researching obscure words
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I can't seem to find anywhere where I can look up reliably the meaning and etymology of this word: finewirer . A quick search on Google gives you uses of this word in texts such as Terry Pratchett's The Color of Magic : Brilliant constellations shone down on the Discworld. One by one the traders shuttered their shops. One by one the ganefs, thieves, finewirers, whores, illusionists, backsliders and second-story men awoke and breakfasted. Wizards went about their polydimensional affairs. Tonight saw the conjunction of two powerful planets, and already the air over the Magical Quarter was hazy with early spells. Or Nick Kyme's Sherlock Holmes: The Legacy of Deeds : Fearing she might be a finewirer, I recoiled and took a firm grip of my wallet, but upon seeing her and the obvious distress she w