different between wringer vs bringer

English

Etymology

From Middle English wringere, equivalent to wring +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????(?)/
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Noun

wringer (plural wringers)

1. One who wrings.
   • 2000, Marlene Evans, Redbirds and Rubies and Rainbows (page 33)

     We wringers of hands don't really want a step to take! We want to continue our hand-wringing and feel hostile toward anyone who acts as if there's something simple to do about any problem.

2. A device for drying laundry consisting of two rollers between which the wet laundry is squeezed (or wrung); a mangle.
3. (figuratively) Something that causes pain, hardship, or exertion; an ordeal.

Derived terms

• put through the wringer

English

Etymology

bring +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?????/
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Noun

bringer (plural bringers)

1. A person who, or a thing which, brings something.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news

     Hath but a losing office.

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 2 Kings 10:5,^[2]

     And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.

Translations

Danish

Noun

bringer c

1. indefinite plural of bringe

Verb

bringer

1. present of bringe

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

bringer

1. present of bringe