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Acker vs Wacker - What's the difference?

acker | wacker |

As a noun acker

is .

As an adjective wacker is

(wack).

acker

English

Etymology 1

Origin unknown; perhaps a variant of (eagre).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 436:
    • The wide lovely lake lay in dreamy serenity, fretted with green undulations, ruffed with blue, patched with glades of lucid smoothness between the ackers [...].

    Etymology 2

    Variant forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • References

    * G. A. Cooke, The County of Devon

    Anagrams

    * ----

    wacker

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (wack)
    • ----

    wack

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Egregious
  • (From hip-hop slang) bad (as in not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, inauthentic, lame, or strange.
    • Every record they ever made was straight-up wack .
  • (slang) crazy, mad, insane

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo.

    • Synonyms

    * wackjob * wacko