different between damper vs dampener

English

Etymology

From damp +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: d?mp??r, IPA^(key): /?dæmp?/

Noun

damper (plural dampers)

1. Something that damps or checks:
   1. A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
   2. A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
   3. Something that kills the mood.
   4. A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
2. (chiefly Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
   • 1827, Peter Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, 1978, ?ISBN,

     The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes.

   • 1938, William Ferguson and John Patten, ‘Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights!’, in Heiss & Minter (eds.), Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 31:

     You hypocritically claim that you are trying to ‘protect’ us; but your modern policy of ‘protection’ (so-called) is killing us off just as surely as the pioneer policy of giving us poisoned damper and shooting us down like dingoes!

Derived terms

• put a damper on

Translations

Adjective

damper

1. comparative form of damp: more damp

Anagrams

• deramp, ramped

Danish

Etymology 1

A calque of the English steamer.

Noun

damper c (singular definite damperen, plural indefinite dampere)

1. steamer, steamboat, steamship

Inflection

Synonyms

• dampskib

Etymology 2

See dampe.

Verb

damper

1. present of dampe

References

• “damper” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From damp +? -er

Noun

damper m (definite singular damperen, indefinite plural dampere, definite plural damperne)

1. a steamer (steamship, steamboat)

Synonyms

• dampbåt, dampskip

Derived terms

• hjuldamper

Etymology 2

Noun

damper m

1. indefinite plural of damp

Etymology 3

Verb

damper

1. present of dampe

See also

• dampar (Nynorsk)

References

• “damper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

English

Etymology

dampen +? -er

Noun

dampener (plural dampeners)

1. A device that moistens or dampens something.
2. (figuratively) A discouraging event or remark.

Synonyms

• buzzkill, killjoy, spoilsport, party pooper; see also Thesaurus:spoilsport

Anagrams

• prenamed