different between gasser vs gaster

English

Etymology

gas +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æs?(r)

Noun

gasser (plural gassers)

1. One who gasses, or poisons with gas.
   • 1969, John Michael Hinton, Experiences: An Inquiry Into Some Ambiguities (page 292)

     Poison-gas fortunately proved to be a two-edged weapon when it was used on the battlefield. […] The wind could turn about to gas the gassers.

2. (slang) Something highly entertaining or remarkable.
3. A kind of hot rod based on production models from the 1930s to mid-1960s, stripped of extraneous weight and jacked up using a truck beam axle to provide better weight distribution on acceleration.
   1. More generally, any car or truck that runs on pump gas, as opposed to diesel fuel, racing fuel, or a car with an electric motor.

Derived terms

• half-gasser

Adjective

gasser

1. (rare) comparative form of gas: more gas
   • 2015 April 29, "ni_ni_niamh", Photo comment Instagram:

     This picture makes me miss seeing my friends every single day and thinking were [sic] gasser than we are ?? ? muchos lovos galpals

   • 2015 August 20, Kate Carr, Photo comment Instagram:

     A gasser night than oxygen [recte Oxegen] ???? #ASolidAgCrew #AMess

Anagrams

• Grasse, SEGRAs, gasers, sarges, segars

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

gasser m (definite singular gasseren, indefinite plural gassere, definite plural gasserne)

1. a Madagascan or Malagasy (person from Madagascar)

Synonyms

• madagasser

Related terms

• Madagaskar
• madagassisk, gassisk

Noun

gasser m

1. indefinite plural of gass
2. indefinite plural of gasse

Verb

gasser

1. present of gasse

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gaster (“the belly”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æ.st?/
• Rhymes: -æst?(?)

Noun

gaster (plural gasters)

1. (anatomy, rare) The stomach.
2. (entomology) The enlarged part of the abdomen behind the petiole in hymenopterous insects (such as ants).

Related terms

• gastric (adjective)

References

• “gaster”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• 'Gaters, Greats, Stager, Strega, grates, greats, ragest, retags, stager, targes

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (gast?r, “a paunch, belly”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??as.ter/, [??äs?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??as.ter/, [???st??r]

Noun

gaster f (variously declined, genitive gasteris or gastr?); third declension, second declension

1. The belly.

   Synonym: venter

2. A big bellied vessel.

Inflection

Third-declension noun or second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Derived terms

• digastricus

Descendants

? English: gaster

References

• gaster in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gaster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin vast?re, present active infinitive of vast?. The initial g is under the influence of Frankish *wuostjan, *wuastjan, itself from Latin vast? or from the same pre-Latin source.

Verb

gaster

1. to waste (not make good use of)
2. to destroy

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Synonyms

• (to destroy): destruire

Descendants

• French: gâter

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vast?re, present active infinitive of vast?. The initial g is under the influence of Frankish *wuostjan, *wuastjan, itself from Latin vast? or from the same pre-Latin source.

Verb

gaster

1. to waste (not make good use of)
2. to destroy

Conjugation

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

Synonyms

• (to destroy): destruire

Descendants

• Middle French: gaster
  • French: gâter