different between meaner vs moaner

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

Etymology

moan +? -er

Noun

moaner (plural moaners)

1. One who makes a moaning sound.
   • 1997, Nancy Rawles, Love Like Gumbo (page 164)

     Elena was a moaner. Sex and moaning had become synonymous to Grace. She had no trouble conceptualizing sex between any two creatures capable of moaning.

2. (derogatory) One who complains.
   • 1998, Saul W. Gellerman, How People Work

     In any big outfit, including this one, you're going to get some bitchers and some moaners.

Derived terms

• moaner's bench

Anagrams

• Anmore, Armeno-, Mareno, Morane, Morena, Ramone, anomer, enamor, maenor, marone, menora, monera, morena