different between oner vs oper

English

Etymology

one +? -er

Noun

oner (plural oners)

1. (informal) An extraordinary individual.
2. A small marble of little worth in children's games.
   • 2012, Nicholas Hagger, A View of Epping Forest (page 143)

     The winner was the last to flick a marble into the gully. A oner had to beat a fourer four times to win, a fourer had to beat a twelver three times, and so on.

3. (Britain) A conker that has won one match.
   • 1993, Henry Normal, Nude modelling for the afterlife

     May all your conkers be oners / May your love life fail with dishonours

   • 2005, Benedict Le Vay, Eccentric Britain (page 32)

     The history of 'oners' becoming 'sixers' through successive victories […]

   • 2006, Charles Campion, Fifty Recipes To Stake Your Life On (page 119)

     Conkers so highly prized that it's a wonder they even manage to hit the ground before being swept away to be pickled or baked and then going on to new careers as 'oners', 'twoers', and so forth.

Synonyms

• one of a kind

Anagrams

• Nero, Oren, Orne, Reno, Roen, Rone, orné, reno, reno-

English

Etymology

Short for operator.

Noun

oper (plural opers)

1. (Internet) A network operator on IRC.
   • 2000, Howard Rheingold, The virtual community: homesteading on the electronic frontier (issue 28, page 187)

     Chanops can kick people off a channel; opers can ban people logging in from specific Internet sites from participating in IRC.

Synonyms

• IRCop

Related terms

• chanop
• op
• deop
• reop

Anagrams

• Pero, pore, reop, repo, rope

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?op?r]

Noun

oper

1. genitive plural of opera