different between choker vs bottler

English

Etymology

From choke +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t???k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?o?k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(?)

Noun

choker (plural chokers)

2. A piece of jewelry or ornamental fabric, worn as a necklace or neckerchief, tight to the throat.
   • 2010, Alice Fisher, The Observer, 24 Oct 2010:

     She appears on the 90th anniversary issue of French Vogue wearing nothing but a mask, gloves and a choker – everything but her now iconic gap-toothed pout and impressive cleavage is obscured.

3. One who, or that which, chokes or strangles.
   • 1990, Janet Husband, Jonathan F. Husband, Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series (page 199)

     The Yorkshire Choker, a serial killer who quotes Shakespeare, is pursued by Dalziel and Pascoe.

4. One who operates the choke of an engine during ignition.
5. (slang) Any disappointing or upsetting circumstance.

   I lost £100 on the horses today — what a choker!

6. One who performs badly at an important part of a competition because they are nervous, especially when winning.
7. A loop of cable fastened around a log to haul it.

Synonyms

• (one who chokes another): strangler
• (slang: disappointing or upsetting circumstance): bummer, downer, pisser

Translations

Anagrams

• Kocher

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English choke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.ke/
• Homophones: chokai, choké, chokée, chokées, chokés, chokez

Verb

choker

1. (Quebec, transitive, intransitive) to choke
2. (Quebec, figuratively, by extension) to stop, to inhibit, to prevent

Conjugation

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?t?l?/, /?b?tl??/, [?b??l??]

Etymology 1

From Middle English boteller, botullere, equivalent to bottle +? -er.

Noun

bottler (plural bottlers)

1. A person, company, or thing who bottles, especially in bulk.
   • 1994 May 30, Shawn Willett, PC tools help Coke add life to flat AS/400 data, InfoWorld, page 63,

     Such data is of great value both to the bottlers and to Coca-Cola?s sales and marketing groups.

     “When the bottler looks at this information, he might be interested in how a certain supermarket is performing, while we in the company are interested in how much, for example, McDonalds is buying in the Southeast,” Aviles notes.

   • 2010, James M. Wahlen, Clyde P. Stickney, Paul Brown, Stephen P. Baginski, Mark Bradshaw, Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, and Valuation: A Strategic Perspective, 7th edition, page 278,

     Note 8, “Noncontrolled Bottling Affiliates” (Appendix A), indicates that PepsiCo owns approximately 40 percent of the common stock of some of its bottlers.

2. A truck used for transporting bottled goods in crates.
3. (Britain, slang) A person who or group that fails to meet expectations, especially one prone to such failure.
4. A Punchman's assistant who collects money ("bottle") from the audience.

Synonyms

• (person or group prone to unexpected failure): choker

Derived terms

• water bottler

Related terms

• butler

Etymology 2

Origin relates to something being of a high quality and worthy of preservation by bottling, probably from the phrase "good enough to bottle"; compare corker.

Noun

bottler (plural bottlers)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, often with "real") a person or thing that is excellent or admirable.
   • 2007, Anthony David Parsons, Tony Parsons, Valley of the White Gold, unnumbered page,

     Mum's a real bottler and you?ll find her very sympathetic.

References

• “bottler”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “bottler” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "bottler" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• Roblett, Tolbert, blotter