aginner

noun

agin·​ner

əˈginə(r)

variants or less commonly agin'er

plural aginners also agin'ers

slang

: one who opposes change

Donald was a saturnine, unrelenting iconoclast, a north-country agin'er from the get-go—about politics, religion, social norms, and what have you.

—Edward Hoagland, Harper's, October 2000

Word History

Etymology

agin entry 2 + -er entry 2

First Known Use

1905, in the meaning defined above

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