different between hipster vs swager

English

Alternative forms

• (A person interested in the latest trends): hepster (dated)

Etymology

hip +? -ster. First attested for someone carrying something on their hip in the U.S. in the 1920s. Attested as a variant of hepster in the 1940s, for a follower of the latest fashions/trends/styles.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?p.st?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?p.st?/

Noun

hipster (plural hipsters)

1. A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions. [from earlier 20th c.]
   • c. 1954, Jack Kerouac, Untitled poem, in Book of Sketches, 1952-57, Penguin, 2006, p. 239,

     I, poor French Canadian Ti Jean become / a big sophisticated hipster esthete in / the homosexual arts […]

2. A member of Bohemian counterculture.
3. An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip.
4. (US, obsolete, Prohibition) A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).
5. (US, obsolete, 1930s) A dancer, particularly a female one.
6. Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.

Synonyms

(Prohibition):

• vial villain
• gentleman from Kentucky (from Kentucky backcountry moonshine)

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

(Prohibition):

• suffer from hip disease (v.)
• bootlegging (n.)
• bootleg (v.) (from hiding flasks in the boot, or stocking)

Translations

Verb

hipster (third-person singular simple present hipsters, present participle hipstering, simple past and past participle hipstered)

1. To behave like a hipster.
2. To dress or decorate in a hip fashion.

References

Anagrams

• Pithers, perisht, prehist.

French

Etymology

From English hipster.

Noun

hipster m or f (plural hipsters)

1. hipster

Polish

Etymology

From English hipster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?ip.st?r/

Noun

hipster m pers (feminine hipsterka)

1. hipster (person interested in the latest trends)
2. hipster (aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) hipsterski

Further reading

• hipster in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• hipster in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English hipster.

Noun

hipster m, f (plural hipsters)

1. hipster (person interested in the latest trends)

Spanish

Etymology

From English hipster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xibste?/, [?xi??s.t?e?]

Noun

hipster m (plural hipsters or hipster)

1. hipster

   Synonyms: gafapasta, modernillo

Derived terms

• hipsterismo

English

Etymology 1

Recorded in neither Old English nor Middle English. Perhaps a borrowing from Dutch or Low German, but this derivation is rather unlikely due to the presence of the words like sweyr (“mother-in-law”) and swier (“father-in-law”) in some East Midlands dialects, which are derived from attested Old English and Middle English words sweger and sweor, respectively. Ultimately derived from Proto-Germanic *sw?graz (“husband's brother”), from Proto-Indo-European *swé?uros (“husband's father”).

Pronunciation

• (Midlands) IPA^(key): /?sw?(?)?(.)?(?)/
• (rural areas of Scotland) IPA^(key): /?swä?(.)??/

Noun

swager (plural swagers)

1. (dialectal, rural) A brother-in-law.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

swage +? -er

Noun

swager (plural swagers)

1. A tool that performs swaging.

Anagrams

• Wagers, wagers

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *sw?gar, from Proto-Germanic *sw?graz.

Noun

swâger m

1. male in-law
   1. brother-in-law
   2. son-in-law
   3. father-in-law

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: zwager
  • Afrikaans: swaer
  • ? Papiamentu: swa, sua
    • ? Dutch: swa
  • ? Sranan Tongo: swagri
    • ? Aukan: swagi
    • ? Saramaccan: suwági
• Limburgish: zwaoger

Further reading

• “swagher”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “swager”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN