different between downer vs downier

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?da?n?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?da?n?/
• Rhymes: -a?n?(r)

Etymology 1

down +? -er

Noun

downer (plural downers)

1. (slang) A negative drug trip.

   Normally those pills give me a boost, but last night they gave me a downer.

2. (slang) A drug that has depressant qualities.
3. (slang) Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy.
   • 2009, Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are

     You don't really need to know me. I'm kind of a downer.

   • 2010, Nicole LaPorte, The Men Who Would Be King

     Geffen had never understood why such a downer of a film was being released over the holidays.

4. A livestock animal that has collapsed.
5. A form of industrial action in which workers down tools and refuse to work.
   • C. T. B. Smith, Great Britain. Dept. of Employment, Manpower Papers (issue 15, page 158)

     In the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, a strike may be a downer or a stoppage as defined by the Department.

   • 1985, Alex Callinicos, Mike Simons, The Great Strike: The Miners' Strike of 1984-5 and Its Lessons

     Cowley experienced a rash of 'downers' — short, sharp, unofficial strikes.

Synonyms

• (something or someone disagreeable): buzzkill, killjoy, spoilsport; see also Thesaurus:spoilsport

Descendants

• German: Downer

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps related to tanner (“sixpence”).

Noun

downer (plural downers)

1. (Britain, slang, obsolete) A sixpence.

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• Nedrow, Rowden, Wonder, Worden, red won, wonder, wondre

German

Adjective

downer

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

English

Adjective

downier

1. comparative form of downy: more downy

Anagrams

• windore