different between dresser vs fresser

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??s?/
• Rhymes: -?s?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser.

Noun

dresser (plural dressers)

2. An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2

     But it went through her like a flash of hot fire when, in passing, he lurched against the dresser, setting the tins rattling, and clutched at the white pot knobs for support.

3. An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers, often with a mirror.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress +? -er.

Noun

dresser (plural dressers)

2. One who dresses in a particular way.

3. (theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
4. A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
   • 2013, Craig Brown, Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings (page 107)

     The former royal butler Guy Hunting recalls the uphill task faced by the Princess's dresser, Isobel Mathieson, each morning. 'During her many years with Princess Margaret, the biggest challenge Isobel faced each day was separating the royal body from its bed.

5. (medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
   • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, I:

     On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when someone tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Bart's.
6. (Britain) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
   • 2015, Jay Allan, Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan

     Because we were the first by a long way to turn trendy, we're still the only dressers in Scotland and our enemies were easily recognised: denims and DM's, skinheads and parkas.

7. A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
8. (dated) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
9. (mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
10. One who dresses or prepares stone.
    • 2015, Frank Bennett, Alfred Pinion, Roof Slating and Tiling (page 7)

      At the dressing sheds the slate-dresser saws the blocks into various sizes and then splits the smaller units into sheets.

Translations

Anagrams

• redress

French

Etymology

From Old French drecer, drecier, from Vulgar Latin *d?rectio (through a contracted form *drectio), from Latin d?rectus (“straight”), whence the adjective direct. Compare Catalan dreçar, Italian drizzare, Spanish aderezar, Norman dréchi, Friulian dreçâ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e.se/, /d??.se/

Verb

dresser

1. (transitive) to raise, to erect, to build
2. (transitive) to raise, to lift, to elevate
3. (transitive) to prepare; to draw up
4. (transitive) to pitch (a tent)
5. (transitive) to set, to lay out

   Est-ce qu'il a dressé la table? Has he laid the table?

6. (transitive) to tame (lion etc), to break in (horse), to train (an animal)
7. (reflexive) to stand

Conjugation

Derived terms

• dresser l'oreille

Related terms

• adresser

Further reading

• “dresser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology

From dress +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dr?s?r(?)/

Noun

dresser

1. (Late Middle English, rare) leader, guide

Descendants

• English: dresser

References

• “dresser, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

dresser m

1. indefinite plural of dress

Verb

dresser

1. present of dresse

Old French

Verb

dresser

1. Alternative form of drecier

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-sss, *-sst are modified to s, s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ???????? (freser).

Noun

fresser (plural fressers)

1. (chiefly Jewish) A glutton.
   • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage 2014, p. 33:

     ‘She is quite the fresser.’