Barger vs Barker - What's the difference?
barger | barker |
Someone or something who s.
A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.
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(video games) A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.
(slang, dated) A pistol.
The spotted redshank.
A person that removes the from wood, or prepares it for use in tanning.
A machine used to remove the bark from wood.
As a noun barger
is (obsolete) the manager of a barge.As a proper noun barker is
a botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist george barker (1776-1845).barker
English
(wikipedia barker)Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
- (Charles Dickens)
Synonyms
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From .Noun
(en noun)- The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname.
- Run these logs through the barker so we can use them as fence posts.