different between robber vs cracksman

English

Etymology

From Middle English robber, either directly taken from or from a calque of Old French robeor. Equivalent to rob +? -er.

Compare reaver ("robber, plunderer"), a native English word derived from Proto-Germanic *raub?rijaz that is ultimately of more or less the same composition as robber. And compare rover ("a pirate"), another word of the same composition.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.b?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???b?/
• Rhymes: -?b?(?)

Noun

robber (plural robbers)

1. A person who robs.

Hypernyms

• thief

Hyponyms

• graverobber
• bank robber
• mugger

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• robbour, robbowre, robbere, robour, robbor, robbeour, roboure, rubbere

Etymology

Either directly taken from or from a calque of Old French robeor. Equivalent to robben +? -er. Alternative forms suggest that the term may have originally been directly taken from the Old French term, but then was later broken down into its equivalent Middle English parts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?b?r/

Noun

robber (plural robberes)

1. A robber or burglar; one who steals or thieves.
2. A reaver or looter.

Descendants

• English: robber
• Scots: robber

References

• “robber(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-16.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French rober, see English rob for more information.

Verb

robber

1. (transitive) to pillage; to plunder
2. (transitive) to steal; to pinch

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

robber

1. present of robbe

English

Etymology

From crack +? -s- +? -man.

Noun

cracksman (plural cracksmen)

1. (archaic, informal) A burglar or safebreaker.

   • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.