different between sportier vs sporter
sportier
English
Adjective
sportier
- comparative form of sporty: more sporty
Anagrams
- Pierrots, pierrots
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sporter
English
Etymology
sport +? -er
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)
Noun
sporter (plural sporters)
- Someone who sports something.
- (firearms) A firearm suitable for sporting use.
- (archaic) One who takes part in sport or games.
- 1780, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
- Charles Lack-wit will have it given out, he is retired into the country, only for the reputation of being thought a man of fashion, when all the while his retirement is to be incessantly hurried with the violence of a madman after a pack of yelping hounds; or brutally murdering whole months of delicious time in noisy laughter, wine, and ribaldry, with Sir Jolly Timberscull, 'Squire Humdrum, and the rest of the club of gentlemen sporters.
- 1780, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
- One who sports or plays with something; a trifler.
- 1823, The Monthly Gazette of Health (page 557)
- We have, however, good reason to suspect the Legislature will soon adopt means of rewarding the ingenuity of these indirect sporters with human life.
- 1823, The Monthly Gazette of Health (page 557)
Anagrams
- Trosper, perrots, porrets, porters, presort, pretors, proters, reports, tropers
Dutch
Etymology
Either from sporten +? -er or borrowed from English sporter. The verb sporten is attested a few years later than sporter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp?r.t?r/
- Hyphenation: spor?ter
Noun
sporter m (plural sporters, diminutive sportertje n)
- one who plays a sport (habitually) [from ca. 1890]
Related terms
- sporten
Anagrams
- stroper
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