different between gunner vs gunnery

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English gonner; equivalent to gun +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???n.?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???n.?(?)/
• Homophones: gonna (non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -?n?(?)

Noun

gunner (plural gunners)

1. (military) Artillery soldier, or such who holds private rank. Abbreviated Gnr.
2. A person who operates a gun.
3. (figuratively) An excessive go-getter; one exhibiting over-ambition.
4. (American football) A player on the kicking team whose primary job is to tackle the kickoff returner or punt returner.
5. (Britain, slang, soccer) A fan of the Arsenal Football Club.
6. The great northern diver or loon.
7. (Britain, Ireland, dialect) The sea bream, especially Pagellus bogaraveo (blackspot sea bream)
8. (basketball) A player who can reliably shoot baskets.

Derived terms

• kiss the gunner's daughter

Descendants

• Cebuano: gunner

Translations

Etymology 2

Contraction

gunner

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of gonna

Etymology 3

Reborrowing from Cebuano gunner, ultimately from English gunner.

Noun

gunner (plural gunners)

1. (regional, Cebu, slang) The person designated to pour drinks in a drinking session.

Cebuano

Etymology

From shot (“a measure of alcohol”); the doer of a shot is a shooter, a gunner is a shooter.

Noun

gunner

1. the person designated to pour drinks in a drinking session

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:gunner.

Descendants

• ? English: gunner

Middle English

Noun

gunner

1. Alternative form of gonner

Spanish

Noun

gunner m or f (plural gunners)

1. Gunner (someone associated with Arsenal Football Club)

English

Etymology

gun +? -ery

Noun

gunnery (usually uncountable, plural gunneries)

1. (uncountable) The science of guns and gunfire including aspects of bullet flight and impact.
2. (uncountable) The design and manufacture of guns, particularly those of a large caliber.
3. (uncountable) The firing of guns
   • 1920, Wilfred Owen, "Exposure" in Poems, London: Chatto & Windus, p. 18, [1]

     Northward incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles, / Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war.

   • 1973, Jaroslav Hašek, The Good Soldier Švejk, translated by Cecil Parrott, London: William Heinemann, Chapter 5, p. 438,

     The 12th march company telephoned claiming that someone in the office had heard that they were waiting to do some shooting practice at moveable targets and that they would only leave after gunnery practice under front conditions.

4. (countable) A place where guns are tested, or where people are trained in their use

Translations

See also

• artillery