different between baster vs basher

English

Etymology

baste +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?be?st?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?be?st?/
• Rhymes: -e?st?(?)

Noun

baster (plural basters)

1. One who bastes.
2. A tool for basting meat with fat or gravy.
   • 2009, Danielle Corsetto, Girls with Slingshots

     Hmm, yeah, but we didn’t have a turkey baster.

Translations

Anagrams

• Be star, Sterba, Tarbes, abrest, barest, bestar, breast, rebats, tabers

Middle French

Verb

baster

1. to put a packsaddle on

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: bâter

References

• “bâter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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