colloq. [f. LUNG + -ER1.] One who is diseased or wounded in the lungs.
1893. Kate Sanborn, A Truthful Woman S. California, 14. The rainy season is hard for ‘lungers’ and nervous invalids.
1896. Westm. Gaz., 14 April, 1/3. There were of course a good many English ‘lungers’ in the village.
1900. R. Kipling, in Daily Mail, 25 April, 4/4. He was a badly-shotten ‘lunger.’
