Damper vs Pamper - What's the difference?
damper | pamper |
Something that damps or checks:
# A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
# A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
# Something that kills the mood.
#* (rfdate) W. Black
# A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
(chiefly, Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
* 1827, , Two Years in New South Wales'', ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, ''A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms , 1978, ISBN 0-424-00034-2,
* (Rudyard Kipling), His Gift
(damp)
To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.
*, chapter=13
, title= (dated) To feed luxuriously.
As a noun damper
is something that damps or checks.As an adjective damper
is comparative of damp.As a verb pamper is
to treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.damper
English
Noun
(en noun)- Nor did Sabrina?s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
- The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers , and cook these in the ashes.
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* ----pamper
English
Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}