Binner vs Binger - What's the difference?
binner | binger |
One who attempts to earn money from what can be recovered from trash bins, as coin-deposit bottles and cans.
(Scottish, dialect) A bickering noise.
(Scottish, dialect) A state of agitation; flurry.
* 1915 , H. Beaton, Benachie , pages 50, 163:
(Scottish, dialect) To create a bickering noise.
* 1768 , A. Ross, Works (S.T.S.) , page 163:
Someone who binges.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=2009-03-13, author=Christine Muhlke, title=The Talk, work=New York Times
, passage=/ crooked, off-center or askew, as in, “That wonky cake pan I picked up in Paris makes each slice a different size — perfect for the office anorexic and binger alike!”; slightly odd or eccentric, i.e., “His pink folding bicycle is a little wonky, but he won’t leave home without it.” }}
As a proper noun binner
is of german origin.As a noun binger is
someone who binges.binner
English
Etymology 1
(bin).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* dumpster diverEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Aye, if he wis comin' in his fite claes, bodybulk, I doot ye wid be a' in a binner', as weel's the horses. . . . I kent fin ye wis in sic a ' binner 'it a' wisna richt.
Verb
(en verb)- To see the lambs come binn'ring down the brae.
binger
English
Noun
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