different between cooler vs esky

English

Etymology

cool +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ku?l.?(?)/
• Rhymes: -u?l?(r)

Noun

cooler (countable and uncountable, plural coolers)

1. (countable) Anything which cools.
   • 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments

     If acid Things were used only as Coolers, they would not be so proper in this Case.

2. (countable) An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping.
3. A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.
4. (US, countable or uncountable) A mixed drink, especially one served chilled.

   They served wine coolers in the afternoon.

5. (US, slang) A prison.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

     About a year or so back we had him in the cooler on a Mann Act rap.

6. (poker, gambling, colloquial, countable) A cold deck.
7. (countable) A bouncer or doorman.

Synonyms

• (insulated box)
  • car fridge
  • cool bag, cool box (UK)
  • chilly bin (New Zealand)
  • esky (Australia)
  • ice chest

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

cooler

1. comparative form of cool: more cool

   He looks cooler when he's dressed in shorts.

Derived terms

• cooler heads will prevail

Anagrams

• recool

Finnish

Noun

cooler

1. cooler (chilled mixed drink)

Declension

German

Adjective

cooler

1. comparative degree of cool

Adjective

cooler

1. inflection of cool:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

English

Etymology

From Esky (“brand name”), a brand name originally owned by Malley's Ltd, of Sydney, Australia, from 1952; since genericised. From esk(imo) +? -ie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?ki?/

Noun

esky (plural eskies)

1. (Australia) An insulated picnic cooler, using ice or refrigerated blocks to keep food and drinks cool.
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 211:

     Instructions followed for the package to be covered with clean ice in a six-pack esky (which should be big enough), and stored in a cool room at the hotel or the butcher shop, until the arrival of the mail plane.

Synonyms

• (insulated cooler): car fridge, chilly bin (NZ), cool box, cooler (US), icebox

See also

• Eskie

Anagrams

• Keys, Skye, keys, kyes, skye, syke, yesk