Battler vs Butler - What's the difference?
battler | butler |
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 , ,
A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
* 1929 , Baldwyn Dyke Acland, Filibuster , Chapter 2
*:“One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler' and three to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"
A valet, a male personal attendant.
As nouns the difference between battler and butler
is that battler is one who wages battle against an enemy; a soldier; a general while butler is a manservant having charge of wines and liquors.As a verb butler is
to buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.As a proper noun Butler is
{{surname|A=An English and Irish occupational surname for someone who was a butler or wine servant|from=Middle English}.battler
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Etymology 1
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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——”
page 27,
- 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 .