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borrower

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borrower a person who borrows from another. The Borrowers are central characters in a series of children's stories by Mary Norton, beginning with The Borrowers (1952); they are a family of tiny people who live under the floorboards in an old house and survive by ‘borrowing’ objects from the household overhead.
neither a borrower nor a lender be advising caution in financial dealings with others, originally from Polonius's advice to his son Laertes in Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601), ‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend.’

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borrower

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borrower •anoa, Balboa, blower, boa, foregoer, goer, grower, hoer, jerboa, knower, Krakatoa, Lebowa, lower, moa, mower, Mururoa, Noah, o'er, proa, protozoa, rower, Samoa, sewer, Shenandoah, shower, sower, spermatozoa, Stour, thrower, tower •shadower • widower • racegoer •theatregoer (US theatergoer) •churchgoer • echoer •follower, swallower •snowblower • lawnmower • genoa •winnower • harrower • winegrower •borrower • burrower • vetoer

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