Battner vs Battler - What's the difference?
battner | battler |
(vulgar) An ox: beef being apt to batten or fatten those that eat it.
* The cove has hushed the battner ; i.e. has killed the ox. One who wages battle against an enemy; a soldier; a general.
(Australian, dated) An itinerant worker or unemployed person.
* 1900 , , The Shanty-Keeper?s Wife'', ''Over the Sliprails ,
One who who works hard in the face of adversity.
* 2006 , ,
As nouns the difference between battner and battler
is that battner is (vulgar) an ox: beef being apt to batten or fatten those that eat it while battler is one who wages battle against an enemy; a soldier; a general or battler can be .battner
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(en noun)battler
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(en noun)Gutenberg eBook # 1313,
- “But look here!” interrupted the Pilgrim, desperately, “we can?t afford to wait! We?re only ‘battlers ’, me and my mate, pickin? up crumbs by the wayside. We?ve got to catch the——”
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- In an earlier era Australia was a nation of battlers', of working people who were hardened by the rigours of economic depression and war, and, if not proud of their penury, certainly not ashamed of it. The Aussie '''battler''' became an icon of Australian political folklore, and the image persists into the present even though, as a result of sustained economic growth for the last five decades, the number of people who truly struggle has shrunk to a small proportion of the population. For every genuine '''battler''' there are three or four who imagine they fit the description. That is why our political leaders keep alive and exploit the myth of the Aussie ' battler .