different between hander vs gander

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hænd?(?)/
• Rhymes: -ænd?(r)

Etymology 1

hand (verb) +? -er

Noun

hander (plural handers)

1. One who hands over or transmits; a conveyor in succession
   • 1682, John Dryden, Religio Laici

     Of that vast Frame, the Church; yet grant they were
     The handers down, can they from thence infer
     A right t'interpret?

Translations

Etymology 2

hand (noun) +? -er

Noun

hander (plural handers)

1. (in combinations) Something having, using, or requiring, a certain hand, or number of hands
2. (archaic, slang) A blow on the hand as punishment.
   • 1959, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Lords official report (page 507)

     I got six "handers", and it hurt. It taught me my lesson, and I never slid down the banisters again.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Harden, Harned, Hendra, harden

English

Etymology

From Middle English gandre, from Old English gandra, ganra (“gander”), from Proto-West Germanic *gan??, from Proto-Germanic *ganzô (“gander”), from Proto-Indo-European *??h?éns (“goose”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??æn.d?(?)/
• Rhymes: -ænd?(?)

Noun

gander (plural ganders)

1. A male goose.
2. A fool, simpleton.
3. (slang, used only with “have”, “get” and “take”) A glance, look.

   Have a gander at what he’s written.

   I took a gander and she seemed so familiar.

4. (US) A man living apart from his wife.

Synonyms

• (slang, look): butcher's, butcher's hook (Cockney rhyming slang for "look")

Derived terms

• ganderism
• gander month
• gander party
• Michigander
• take a gander
• what's good for the goose is good for the gander
• what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

Translations

Verb

gander (third-person singular simple present ganders, present participle gandering, simple past and past participle gandered)

1. (dialect, intransitive) ramble, wander

Anagrams

• Garden, danger, garden, grande, graned, nadger, ranged

Dutch

Etymology

Most likely from English gander or Low German gander, ganner. Both are possibly formed from gans (“goose”) in an analogous way as kater (“male cat”) from kat (“(female) cat”) and doffer (“male dove”) from duif (“(female) dove”).

Pronunciation

Noun

gander m (plural ganders, diminutive gandertje n)

1. gander, male goose

Synonyms

• (male goose): ganzerik, gent, mannetjesgans

Anagrams

• dragen