different between gazer vs gager

English

Etymology

gaze +? -er

Noun

gazer (plural gazers)

1. One who gazes.
   • 1595, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act II, Scene 2, [1]

     I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; / I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book V, edited by Abraham Stoll, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Canto Eight, stanza 38, p. 113,

     Like lightening flash, that hath the gazer burned, / So did the sight thereof their sense dismay, / That backe againe upon themselves they turned, / And with their ryder ranne perforce away:

   • 1820, Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," [2]

     Knots of gazers and gossips were collected in the churchyard, at the bridge, and at the spot where the hat and pumpkin had been found.

   • 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910, pp. 86-7, [3]

     I would observe, by the way, that it costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in.

   • 1914, Wassily Kandinsky, The Art of Spiritual Harmony, translated by M.T.H. Sadler, Houghton Mifflin, Chapter V, p. 49, [4]

     Keen lemon-yellow hurts the eye in time as a prolonged and shrill trumpet-note the ear, and the gazer turns away to seek relief in blue or green.

Derived terms

• shoegazer
• stargazer

Anagrams

• Garzê, Zager, graze

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ze/

Etymology 1

gaz +? -er

Verb

gazer

1. to gas (exterminate using gas)
2. (slang) to smoke (a cigarette)
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun, se gazer) to rage, to become irate
4. (informal) to go well, to be well (feeling)

   ça gaze ? - how's it going?

   oui, ça gaze. - it's going alright

Conjugation

Related terms

• gazage

Descendants

• ? Italian: gazare
• ? Romanian: gaza

Etymology 2

gaze +? -er

Verb

gazer

1. to gloss over; to cover up; to hush up

Conjugation

Anagrams

• garez
• ragez

Further reading

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

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