different between blazer vs redcoat

English

Etymology

From blaze +? -er. Originates from the 'blazing' scarlet jackets worn by members of Lady Margaret Boat Club, the rowing club associated with St. John's College, Cambridge. Compare Old English blæsere, blasere (“burner, incendiary”, literally “blazer”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ble?z?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ble?z?/
• Rhymes: -e?z?(?)

Noun

blazer (plural blazers)

1. A semi-formal jacket.
2. A person or thing that blazes (marks or cuts a route).
3. Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.
4. The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brazier.
5. (slang, US) One who smokes cannabis; a stoner.
6. (archaic) One who spreads news, or blazes matters abroad.
7. (slang, Britain) An older member of a sporting club, often with old-fashioned or conservative views.
8. A con or swindle.
   • 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate

     "What'd I tell you?" said Bill. "The old wolverine was tryin' to run a blazer on us. All he needed was to be showed we meant business. And he can't make no trouble for us when he gets out, 'cause our two words are better'n his."

Translations

See also

• trailblazer

Anagrams

• Balzer, Brazel

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bla.zœ?/

Noun

blazer m (plural blazers)

1. blazer (jacket)

Portuguese

Noun

blazer m (plural blazers)

1. Alternative spelling of blêizer

Romanian

Etymology

From English blazer.

Noun

blazer n (plural blazere)

1. blazer

Declension

Spanish

Noun

blazer m (plural blazeres)

1. blazer

English

Alternative forms

• red coat

Etymology

Bahuvrihi compound of red +? coat

Pronunciation

Noun

redcoat (plural redcoats)

1. A British soldier, especially during the American Revolution.
   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad:

     The street sounds to the soldiers’ tread, / And out we troop to see: / A single redcoat turns his head, / He turns and looks at me.

   • 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:

     He did not come in the dawning; he did not come at noon;

     And out o' the tawny sunset, before the rise o' the moon,

     When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor,

     A red-coat troop came marching—

     Marching—marching—

     King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door.

2. A member of the entertainment staff at Butlin's holiday camps in the United Kingdom, who wear red blazers.

   • Mirror News 16 May 13. The series ran from 1980 until 1988, and won a BAFTA for Best Comedy Series in 1984. It was based on Perry’s experiences working as a Redcoat in Butlins.

3. (slang) A fox.
   • 1947, Pennsylvania Game News (volumes 18-19, page 30)

     Hurriedly he made his way around one end of the pond to the spot where he had first sighted the redcoat.

Usage notes

The soldier and entertainment staff uses are sometimes capitalised.

Synonyms

• (British soldier) lobsterback

Anagrams

• Art Deco, cordate