different between gager vs gaper

English

Etymology

gage +? -er

Noun

gager (plural gagers)

1. A measurer.

See also

• gauger

Anagrams

• Garge, Grega, agger, eggar, regag

French

Etymology

From gage or from Old French guagier, itself from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *waddi, *wadja, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadiare from *wadium. Compare English to wage and wager, which came from the same source via an Anglo-Norman/Old Northern French variant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?e/

Verb

gager

1. to guarantee
2. to wager or bet

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written gage- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

gager

1. Alternative form of gauger

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English gaper, equivalent to gape +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?p?(r)

Noun

gaper (plural gapers)

1. One who gapes; a starer.
2. Any of several species of burrowing clams.
3. The comber, a fish of the species Serranus cabrilla.
4. The fish Champsodon capensis
5. (US, slang) An inexperienced skier.
   • 2017, Brendan Leonard, The Great Outdoors: Everything You Need to Know Before Heading Into the Wild, p. 295:

     If you want to avoid looking like a gaper, just keep yourself from looking sloppy and you should be okay.

Synonyms

• (fish): comber

Hyponyms

• (burrowing clams): king clam

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• grape, pager, parge

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gapere. Equivalent to gapen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?.p?r/
• Hyphenation: ga?per
• Rhymes: -a?p?r

Noun

gaper m (plural gapers, diminutive gapertje n)

1. A yawner, one who yawns.
2. A figurehead with an open mouth used as the shop sign of a pharmacy.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

gaper

1. present of gape