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drowner

English

Etymology

drown +? -er

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?d?a?n?(?)/

Noun

drowner (plural drowners)

  1. Someone who dies by drowning.
    • 2017, Ronald V. Clarke, Suicide: Closing the Exits
      With the jumpers and the drowners, McGee, you don't pick up a pattern. That's because a jumper damned near always makes it the first time, and a drowner is usually almost as successful, about the same rate as hangers.
  2. One who drowns another.
    • 1950, Henry Morton Robinson, The Cardinal
      At eight you thought of boys as cat drowners and bird stoners. At nine there was another reason for boys' existence: they either noticed you or they didn't, and it desperately mattered which.

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downer

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

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