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Amuser vs Muser - What's the difference?

amuser | muser |

As nouns the difference between amuser and muser

is that amuser is someone who amuses while muser is one who muses.

amuser

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who amuses.
  • (obsolete) One who diverts attention, usually to distract or bewilder, often for fraudulent purposes; hence a cheat, deceiver or thief.
  • One of a class of rogues who carry snuff or dust in their pockets, which they throw into the eyes of people so as to enable their accomplices to rob them while pretending to help them.
  • * 1993 , Stella Cameron; Only by Your Touch , Harpercollins, page 88:
    • He should have knowed better than to tangle with you, Miss Lindsay. Where did you learn to be an amuser , then?
  • * 2002 , various authors, Gangs of New York (film), Miramax Films, Entertainment Film Distributors:
    • BOSS TWEED — No one important, necessarily. Average men will do. Back alley amusers with no affiliations.
  • * 2013 , Michelle Lovric; The Remedy'', Bloomsbury, page 59 :
    • Valentine watches the bunch of amusers close around the politician, the leader already dipping into his pocket for the snuff to fling into the eyes of their victim.

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    muser

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who muses.
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