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Donner vs Downer - What's the difference?

donner | downer |

As a verb donner

is to beat up, clobber, thrash.

As a noun downer is

a negative drug trip.

donner

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (South Africa, slang) To beat up, clobber, thrash
  • * 2005 , , Acid Alex , Zebra Press (2005), ISBN 1770070931, page 167:
  • They went into the pub and started a fight. One that was just bad enough for someone to call the boere. When the gattas arrived they got donnered for their trouble.

    References

    * Cassell's Dictionary of Slang * A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ----

    downer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A negative drug trip.
  • Normally those pills give me a boost, but last night they gave me a downer
  • A drug that has depressant qualities.
  • Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy
  • * 2009 , (Spike Jonze),
  • You don't really need to know me. I'm kind of a downer .

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