Angler vs Redbait - What's the difference?
angler | redbait |
A person who fishes with a hook and line.
An angler fish, Lophius piscatorius .
Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive.
A thief who uses a hooked stick to steal goods out of shop-windows, grates, etc.
(US) To attack by denouncing as a Communist.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 9, author=David Corn, title=Collision Course, work=New York Times
, passage=While Jack Kennedy thrived in the 1950s as a sex-crazed, drug-dependent, ailment-ridden party-boy politician, Bobby, the family’s complicated sourpuss, hooked up with the redbaiting Joe McCarthy, then spun off as a crusading and corners-cutting scourge of labor corruption. }}
A fish, Emmelichthys nitidus .
Pyura stolonifera , an ascidian often used as bait by anglers.
As nouns the difference between angler and redbait
is that angler is angler while redbait is a fish, emmelichthys nitidus .As a verb redbait is
(us|transitive) to attack by denouncing as a communist.angler
English
(wikipedia angler) (angling) (Lophius piscatorius)Noun
(en noun)- A throng of anglers lined the trout stream on opening day of trout season.
- The angler lured a smaller fish into reach with the appendage on its head.
- ''Jonas was a consummate angler when it came the company's leave policy; he had it figured so he only needed to work six months out of the year.
Synonyms
* (person who fishes with hook and line) fisher, fisherman * (angler fish) anglerfish, frogfish * (someone with a scheme or ulterior motive) conniver, grifter, schemer, swindlerReferences
* * 1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue , available from Project Gutenberg [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5402]Anagrams
*redbait
English
Verb
(en verb)citation