different between blazer vs sweater

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 swetere, equivalent to sweat +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sw?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sw?t?/, /-??/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?swet?/
• Rhymes: -?t?, -?t?(r), -?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: sweat?er

Noun

sweater (plural sweaters)

1. A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
2. (US) A similar garment worn for warmth.
3. One who sweats (produces sweat).
4. One who or that which causes to sweat.
   • 1906, Chesterton, Charles Dickens, chapter 3

     We learn of the cruelty of some school or child-factory from journalists; we learn it from inspectors, we learn it from doctors, we learn it even from shame-stricken schoolmasters and repentant sweaters; but we never learn it from the children; we never learn it from the victims.

5. A diaphoretic remedy.
6. (historical) An exploitative middleman who subcontracted piece work in the tailoring trade.

   Coordinate term: sweatee

   • 1894, New York (State) Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration, Annual Report (volumes 7-8, page 158)

     If the piecework system had not existed there never would have been any sweatees. The men who are sweaters, I am sorry to say, are men who formerly belonged to our union.

7. (archaic) One who sweats coins, i.e. removes small portions by shaking them.
8. (Britain, obsolete) A London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded weak passengers with his sword-point.

Synonyms

• (for sense 1): sweatshirt
• (for sense 2): jumper, pullover, jersey, cardigan, wooly
• (for sense 3): perspirer
• (for sense 4): exploiter

Derived terms

• sweater dress

Descendants

Translations

Verb

sweater (third-person singular simple present sweaters, present participle sweatering, simple past and past participle sweatered)

1. (transitive) To dress in a sweater.

Further reading

• sweater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• wearest