different between blazer vs sackcloth

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

Etymology

From Middle English sakcloth, sekcloth, sekclath, sekklath, equivalent to sack +? cloth.

Noun

sackcloth (countable and uncountable, plural sackcloths)

1. A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.
2. (usually with “and ashes”, also figuratively) Garments worn as an act of penance.

   Synonyms: hairshirt, cilice

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “sackcloth”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN