different between meaner vs beaner

English

Adjective

meaner

1. comparative form of mean: more mean
   • Ivanhoe (1952 film)

     Prince John: "Your foe has bloodied you, sir knight. Will you concede defeat? You fight too well to die so mean a death. Will you not throw in your lot with me instead?

     Ivanhoe: "That would be an even meaner death, Your Grace."

Noun

meaner (plural meaners)

1. One who means or intends something.
   • 2006, M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan Webster, Linguistic Studies of Text and Discourse (page 50)

     By his acts of meaning, and those of other individual meaners, the social reality is created, maintained in good order, and continuously shaped and modified.

Anagrams

• remean, rename

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?bin?/

Etymology 1

From bean +? -er. Literally "a person who eats refried beans".

Noun

beaner (plural beaners)

1. (US, ethnic slur, offensive) A Mexican.

Translations

References

• John Sutherland (2000-07-31) , “You are what you eat ... arguably”, in The Guardian?^[2]

Etymology 2

bean +? -er; see bean (“(slang) head”).

Noun

beaner (plural beaners)

1. (baseball) A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter.
2. (by extension, informal) Head.
   • 2011, Mike Griffin, Tales of the Lost Flamingo, AuthorHouse (2011), ?ISBN, page 159:

     Before Chester could compose himself, the Bombshell leaned over and planted a ruby red smackaroo right on top of his bald spot. Chester Cranepool had had a few things hit him on top of his head before, but nothing that felt that good. Looking like a Franciscan monk with a bullseye on his beaner, Chester simply said, “Bless you, my child.”

3. (US, slang, dated) A superior or admirable person; something excellent.

Usage notes

This sense of a superior or admirable person, from U.S. baseball slang in the 1940s and 1950s, is now almost completely superseded.

Synonyms

• bean ball

References

• Lester V. Berrey and Melvín van den Bark (1953) American Thesaurus of Slang: A Complete Reference Book of Colloquial Speech, Crowell, pages 27,354,375

Anagrams

• Berean, bearen