different between hander vs hanger

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 1

From Middle English hanger, haunger, hangere, equivalent to hang +? -er. Compare West Frisian hinger (“hanger”), Dutch hanger (“hanger”), German Hänger and Henker.

Pronunciation 1

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hæ??(?)/
• Rhymes: -æ??(?)
• Homophone: hangar

Noun

hanger (plural hangers)

1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman, paper hanger, etc.
2. A person who attempts suicide by hanging.
3. That by which a thing is suspended.
   1. A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
   2. A bridle iron.
   3. A clothes hanger.
4. (now historical) A short and broad backsword, worn so to hang at the side, especially popular in the 18th century.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.8:

     [H]is shoulder was graced with a broad buff belt, from whence depended a huge hanger with a hilt like that of a backsword […] .

   • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 4:

     I made an offer to go for my books and chest of clothes, but he swore I should not move out of his sight; and if I did he would cut my throat, at the same time taking his hanger.

   • 2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head 2017, p. 440:

     When he called ‘Watch!’ they cut him on the head with a hanger or short cutlass and fired a pistol so close to his face he was thought to be powder-burned for life.

5. (Britain) A steep, wooded slope.
6. (baseball, slang) A hanging pitch; a pitch (typically a breaking ball or slider) that is poorly executed, hence easy to hit.
7. (Australian rules football, informal) Synonym of spectacular mark

Derived terms

• byhanger
• onhanger

Usage notes

Not to be confused with hangar (a garage-like building for airplanes).

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of hunger +? anger.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?hæ???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?hæ???/
• Rhymes: -æ???(?)

Noun

hanger (uncountable)

1. (slang) Hunger and anger, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger.

Related terms

• hangry

Anagrams

• Hagner, Rhegan, rehang

Cebuano

Etymology

From English hanger, from Middle English hanger, haunger, hangere, equivalent to hang +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ha?nger

Noun

hanger

1. a coat hanger; a device used to hang up coats, shirts, etc., a clothes hanger

Dutch

Etymology

From hangen +? -er

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: han?ger
• Rhymes: -???r

Noun

hanger m (plural hangers, diminutive hangertje n)

1. hanger
2. jewel that hangs

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: hanger

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch hanger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ha??r]
• Hyphenation: hang?êr

Noun

hangêr (first-person possessive hangerku, second-person possessive hangermu, third-person possessive hangernya)

1. (colloquial) clothes hanger.

Further reading

• “hanger” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Noun

hanger

1. Alternative form of anger

Romanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (hancer), from Persian ????? (xanjar).

Noun

hanger n (plural hangere)

1. dagger

Declension