Basher vs Critic - What's the difference?
basher | critic |
One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.
One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people.
(UK, slang) A trainspotter. [http://groups.google.co.uk/groups/search?q=%22bashers%22+uk+railway&btnG=Search&sitesearch=groups.google.com]
A person who appraises the works of others.
* Macaulay
A specialist in judging works of art.
One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
* I. Watts
An opponent.
(an act of criticism)
* Alexander Pope
(the art of criticism)
* John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550
(obsolete, ambitransitive) To criticise.
* A. Brewer
As nouns the difference between basher and critic
is that basher is one who bashes something, figuratively or literally while critic is critic.As an adjective critic is
critical.basher
English
Noun
(en noun)- He was beaten up by a queer -basher.
- a Paki-basher
Derived terms
* Bible basherAnagrams
*critic
English
(wikipedia critic)Alternative forms
* critick (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- The opinion of the most skilful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's Traveller ] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the Dunciad.
- When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
- Make each day a critic on the last.
- And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic , than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Verb
- Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.