colloq. or slang. [f. TWICE.]
1. One who does something twice; esp. one who attends church (in quot. 1679, one who conducts public worship) twice on a Sunday.
1679. V. Alsop, Mel. Inquirend., II. i. 170. What if a thousand or two more of Ministers were silenced…? What if Lectures were proscribed, private Conferences interdicted, and your Twicers suspended?
1902. Onlooker’s Note-Bk., xxiii. 180. In his [Gladstone’s] view every respectable person should be a ‘Twice-er.’
1904. Times, Lit. Supp., 4 March, 68/1. The prodigious proportion of absentees from church or chapel and the small number of ‘twicers.’
b. Printers’ slang. (See quot.)
1888. Jacobi, Printers’ Vocab., Twicer, a term of contempt for a man who professes to work both at case and press.
2. Something of twice the usual force or value.
1857. A. Mayhew, Paved with Gold, III. xiv. He expressed his delight by exclaiming, ‘Here’s a start! a reg’lar twicer!’
