different between sneaker vs tennies

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?snik?/
• Rhymes: -i?k?(r)

Etymology

sneak +? -er

Noun

sneaker (plural sneakers)

1. One who sneaks.

   • Beshrew the man who on such a day as this, the general festival, should affect to stand aloof. I am none of those sneakers. I am free of the corporation, and care not who knows it.

2. (US, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand) An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole.
3. (Britain, dialect, archaic) A vessel of drink.
   • Spectator

     I have just left the right worshipful and his myrmidons about a sneaker of five gallons!

4. (biology) A sneaker male.

Synonyms

• (sports shoes): kicks, tennis shoe (US), trainer (UK), runner (Australia), running shoe, see also Thesaurus:sports shoe

Hypernyms

• sports shoe

Derived terms

• sneaker wave

Translations

Anagrams

• Keerans, Keresan

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ik?r

Noun

sneaker m (plural sneakers, diminutive sneakertje n)

1. sneaker

Synonyms

• sportschoen, gymschoen

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?nike?/, [ez?ni.ke?]

Noun

sneaker m (plural sneakeres)

1. sneaker

English

Etymology

Clipping of tennis shoe + -ie.

Noun

tennies pl (plural only)

1. (US) trainers, sneakers (sport shoes)

Anagrams

• enseint, intense, sentine, tennesi