different between nooner vs nooser

English

Etymology

noon +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nu?n??/

  Rhymes: -u?n?(r)

Noun

nooner (plural nooners)

1. (chiefly US, informal) A sexual encounter during lunch hour, especially one which is illicit.
   • 1998 Dec. 11, Benjamin Lee, Daily Collegian (University Wire), State College Pennsylvania:

     A simple recess for lunch can turn into a nooner—a midday sexual encounter.

   • 2006 Sep. 22, "Funnyman Dennis Miller Returns to FNC!," FOX News:

     If you're going to knock off a nooner with a co-worker at a bad motel you have to scrawl your worn Hancock on the desk blotter.

Hypernyms

• quickie

References

• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

English

Etymology

From noose +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?nus?/

Noun

nooser (plural noosers)

1. Someone who uses a noose.
   • 1868, Alfred Elliott, The Forest, the Jungle, and the Prairie; or, Scenes with the Trapper and the Hunter in Many Lands, page 321,

     Siribeddi followed with the same laggard step, and drew herself close up in his rear, enabling the native who acted as nooser, and who had followed stealthily behind, to slip the noose over the hind foot of the wild elephant.

   • 1912, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, Volume 59, W. B. Holland, page 269,

     A nooser, lithe and active as an eel, slid down the pad-rope of his decoy and, waiting until the attention of the captive had been momentarily distracted, slipped a thick noose of rawhide around the hind ankle of his prize.

   • 1931, The Literary Digest, Volume 108, Funk & Wagnalls, page 37,

     It is the ambition of each and every nooser to capture the first elephant; for he to whom falls this honor is considered the hero of the day, and in recognition of his skill and bravery is rewarded by His Excellency the Governor with an elephant book of Kandyan lacquer with brass and silver overlay.

Anagrams

• Roneos, Sooner, seroon, sonero, sooner