different between beaker vs beaner

English

Etymology

From Middle English bekyr, biker, from Old Norse bikarr (“cup”), from Old Saxon bikeri (“cup”), from Late Latin b?c?rium (“wine vat, jug”), of disputed origin. Possibly from Ancient Greek ????? (bîkos, “earthenware jug, wine jar”), or from Latin bacarium (“wine vat, vase”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bieker (“mug, cup, beaker”), Dutch beker (“beaker, cup”), German Becher (“beaker, cup, goblet”), Danish bæger (“beaker”), Italian bicchiere (“cup, glass (for drink)”). Doublet of pitcher.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bi?k?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bi?k?/
• Rhymes: -i?k?(r)

Noun

beaker (plural beakers)

1. A flat-bottomed vessel, with a lip, used as a laboratory container.
2. A drinking vessel without a handle, sometimes for the use of children.
3. A mug.
4. (slang, Antarctica) A scientist.

Hyponyms

• (drinking vessel without a handle): glass (2nd definition), tumbler

Derived terms

• beaker people

Translations

Anagrams

• breake, e-brake, rebake

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?bin?/

Etymology 1

From bean +? -er. Literally "a person who eats refried beans".

Noun

beaner (plural beaners)

1. (US, ethnic slur, offensive) A Mexican.

Translations

References

• John Sutherland (2000-07-31) , “You are what you eat ... arguably”, in The Guardian?^[2]

Etymology 2

bean +? -er; see bean (“(slang) head”).

Noun

beaner (plural beaners)

1. (baseball) A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter.
2. (by extension, informal) Head.
   • 2011, Mike Griffin, Tales of the Lost Flamingo, AuthorHouse (2011), ?ISBN, page 159:

     Before Chester could compose himself, the Bombshell leaned over and planted a ruby red smackaroo right on top of his bald spot. Chester Cranepool had had a few things hit him on top of his head before, but nothing that felt that good. Looking like a Franciscan monk with a bullseye on his beaner, Chester simply said, “Bless you, my child.”

3. (US, slang, dated) A superior or admirable person; something excellent.

Usage notes

This sense of a superior or admirable person, from U.S. baseball slang in the 1940s and 1950s, is now almost completely superseded.

Synonyms

• bean ball

References

• Lester V. Berrey and Melvín van den Bark (1953) American Thesaurus of Slang: A Complete Reference Book of Colloquial Speech, Crowell, pages 27,354,375

Anagrams

• Berean, bearen