different between langer vs laager

English

Etymology

Uncertain. Suggestions include:

• from langur monkeys, via the Munster Fusiliers regiment stationed in India
• from languor
• from lang, variant of long
• from "on the lang", supposed variant of on the lam
• from leangaire, a word in Cnósach Focal ó Bhaile Bhúirne, a dictionary of the Muskerry Gaeltacht. It means an unusually long slender salmon.

Pronunciation

• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /?læ???/
• Rhymes: -æ??(r)
• Homophones: Langer

Noun

langer (plural langers)

1. (slang, Ireland, derogatory) Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).
2. (slang, Ireland, derogatory, offensive, used in Cork) A person from south county Dublin.
   • 1996, Enda Walsh, Disco Pigs, ?ISBN, p. 8:

     "Give it up will ya! get a job, ja langer!"

   • 2006, September 3, Brendan O'Connor Roy: the discreet object of our desire, Irish Independent:

     And central to it all is wind-up, making a langer out of people, to use that now unfortunate word that can still only be used correctly and said correctly by Cork people, even though the rest of the country has taken to it with gusto, embarrassing themselves like white people trying to talk black slang to be "street".

   • 2006 November 22, Hurling abuse when there’s no team in sight, Irish Independent:

     "Langers boy, every wan of ‘em. Golfers are only langers. They’re only golfing cos they can’t hurl. Anyone that golfs in Cork is only a failed hurler and a langer, boy. "

3. (slang, Ireland, vulgar) Penis.
   • 2006, Eoin Colfer, "Taking on PJ" in Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs. the Ugly American, ed. Ken Bruen, p.23, ?ISBN:

     Mike opened his knees wide, so that his langer would be framed by the gap between his legs. For first impressions a boner would have been good, but not likely.

   • 2005, Fergal Keane, All of These People: A Memoir, p.88, ?ISBN:

     He showed me a photograph. There was a woman and a man doing something, but I wasn't sure what. The man was standing over the woman holding his langer (the Cork word) and she was looking up at him smiling. I felt ill and started to walk backwards.

Usage notes

• Originally and mainly restricted to County Cork

Synonyms

• (annoying or contemptible person): dickhead, knob, asshole, shithead, wanker
• (penis): See also Thesaurus:penis

Derived terms

• langers, langered, acting the langer, langerload

Anagrams

• Nagler, Nergal, Rangel, angler, erlang, gen'ral, largen, rangle, regnal

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???r

Adjective

langer

1. Comparative form of lang

French

Etymology

Related to langes (“swaddling clothes”).

Verb

langer

1. to diaper (to put diapers on someone)

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written lange- 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

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

Anagrams

• glaner

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la??/

Adjective

langer

1. inflection of lang:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Norwegian Bokmål

See also

• langar (Nynorsk)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lâ?.??r/, [?l???.???], [?l???.???]

Etymology 1

lange (“send, deal”) +? -er (“-er”) (agent nominalization suffix)

Noun

langer m (definite singular langeren, indefinite plural langere, definite plural langerne)

1. dealer, peddler; someone who deals or peddles
   1. drug dealer; someone who deals narcotics

Etymology 2

Verb

langer

1. present of lange

References

• “langer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “langer” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse langr, from Proto-Germanic *langaz.

Adjective

langer

1. long

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: lång

Scots

Adjective

langer

1. comparative degree of lang

Adverb

langer

1. comparative degree of lang

English

Alternative forms

• lager

Etymology

From South African Dutch lager (“camp”) (modern Afrikaans laer), from German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-Germanic *legr?. Doublet of lager and lair.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??.??/
• (Canada, military) IPA^(key): /?li.???/
• Rhymes: -????(r)

Noun

laager (plural laagers)

1. A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers.
   • 1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa

     Wagons […] can be readily formed into a laager, a camp, by being drawn into a circle, with the oxen placed inside and so kept safe from the attacks of wild beasts.

   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 332:

     “And for how long d'you think you're going to be safe in the cities?” Louis persisted. “Just a matter of time, then our frontiers will shrink as we draw our little laager more and more tightly.”

2. (military) A temporary formation of armoured vehicles for resupply.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with lager beer (though both words come from the German Lager).

Translations

Verb

laager (third-person singular simple present laagers, present participle laagering, simple past and past participle laagered)

1. (transitive) To arrange in a circular formation for defence.
   • 1917, H. Rider Haggard, Finished

     At the foot of this isolated mount, whereof the aspect somehow filled me with alarm, we camped on the night of January 21, taking no precautions against attack by way of laagering the wagons.

2. (intransitive) To camp in a circular formation.
   • 2000, Jeff Dossett, Delayed Detonation (page 44)

     That evening, we laagered close to a large open area covered with elephant grass about six feet high.

See also

• laager on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• circle the wagons

Anagrams

• aglare, alegar

Estonian

Etymology

From German Lager. Etymological twin of leer.

Noun

laager (genitive laagri, partitive laagrit)

1. camp
2. bearing (mechanical device)

Declension