different between langer vs langur
langer
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)
- (slang, Ireland, derogatory) Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).
- (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. "
- 1996, Enda Walsh, Disco Pigs, ?ISBN, p. 8:
- (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.
- 2006, Eoin Colfer, "Taking on PJ" in Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs. the Ugly American, ed. Ken Bruen, p.23, ?ISBN:
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
- Comparative form of lang
French
Etymology
Related to langes (“swaddling clothes”).
Verb
langer
- 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
- inflection of lang:
- strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- strong genitive/dative feminine singular
- 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)
- dealer, peddler; someone who deals or peddles
- drug dealer; someone who deals narcotics
Etymology 2
Verb
langer
- 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
- long
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: lång
Scots
Adjective
langer
- comparative degree of lang
Adverb
langer
- comparative degree of lang
langer From the web:
langur
English
Etymology
From Hindi ????? (la?g?r) and Urdu ?????? (lã?g?r), from Sanskrit ?????????? (l??g?lin).
Pronunciation
(US) IPA(key): /l??.?????/
Noun
langur (plural langurs)
- Any of the Old World monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae, in the genera Simias, Trachypithecus (lutungs), Presbytis, (surilis), and Semnopithecus, (gray langurs).
- A gibbon of the genus Hoolock.
Translations
References
- Colobinae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Colobinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Colobinae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- Langru, Lurgan
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse langr, from Proto-Germanic *langaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dl?h?g?ós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l??k??/
- Rhymes: -??k??
Adjective
langur (comparative longri, superlative longstur)
- long
Declension
Synonyms
- síður
Antonyms
- stuttur
See also
- breiður
- víður
- djúpur
- høgur
- smáur
- stórur
- tjúkkur
- tunnur
- tættur
- fjarur
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse langr, from Proto-Germanic *langaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dl?h?g?ós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?k?r/ (older pronunciation, now dialectal)
- IPA(key): /?lau?k?r/
- Rhymes: -au?k?r
Adjective
langur (comparative lengri, superlative lengstur)
- long (of distance or time or the length of an object)
Inflection
Derived terms
- fyrir löngu (a long time ago)
- langförull
- eiga sér langan aðdraganda
Noun
langur m
- only used in set phrases
Declension
Derived terms
- draga á langinn (to put off)
Old French
Alternative forms
- langor (France)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin languor.
Noun
langur m or f
- (Anglo-Norman) languor (weakness due to illness)
Usage notes
- Like other words ending in -or that are masculine in Latin and feminine in modern French, about evenly split between masculine and feminine usage. Most citations do not demonstrate a gender (like the one above).
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (langor, supplement)
- langur on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Spanish
Noun
langur m (plural langures)
- langur
langur From the web:
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