different between bashert vs basher

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ???????? (bashert), from Middle High German beschern. Compare German bescheren.

Noun

bashert (plural basherts)

1. One's predestined soulmate

Adjective

bashert (comparative more bashert, superlative most bashert)

1. preordained, fated

Anagrams

• bathers, berthas, betrash, breaths

English

Etymology

bash +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bæ??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bæ??/
• Rhymes: -æ??(?)

Noun

basher (plural bashers)

1. One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.
2. (slang) One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people.

   He was beaten up by a queer-basher.

   a Paki-basher

3. (Britain, slang) A trainspotter.
   • 2015, Nicholas Whittaker, Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero

     Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.

   • 2017, Ian Carter, British railway enthusiasm (page 102)

     Determined 'bashers' do still ride trains, of course, seeking to cram the largest number of route-miles into 24 hours.

4. (military, slang) A rainproof sheet for sleeping under.
   • 2014, LA Clarke, Callsign Whiskey (page 24)

     Suddenly awake she looked around, startled, it was light, hot, intensely hot and she was sleeping in a shell scrape under a basher.

   • 2018, John-Paul Jordan, Joys of War

     I was well used to sleeping out under the stars whatever the weather. I had a hammock and a basher, a rain sheet to go over where I was sleeping.

5. (television, film) A kind of small floodlight.

Derived terms

• Bible basher

Anagrams

• Absher, Baehrs, Behars, rehabs