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Feller vs Filler - What's the difference?

feller | filler |

As nouns the difference between feller and filler

is that feller is a person who fells trees; a lumberjack or feller can be while filler is a subdenomination of the forint, 100 fillér = 1 forint.

As an adjective feller

is (archaic) (fell).

feller

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who fells trees; a lumberjack
  • A machine for felling trees.
  • An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

    • Etymology 2

    Variant of fellow'' which reflects the reduction of the last vowel to a schwa and its conflation with the endings ''-er''/''-ar . Dictionary.com

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
    • , title=, chapter=1 , passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
    Derived terms
    * blackfeller * whitefeller

    See also

    * fellow, fellar, fella, fellah

    References

    Etymology 3

    The adjective fell'' + ''-er .

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (archaic) (fell)

    • Anagrams

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    filler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who fills.
  • * Mortimer
    • They have six diggers to four fillers , so as to keep the fillers always at work.
  • Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.
  • * 1977 , Stereo Review (volume 38, page 70)
    • I recommend this album in the face of the fact that five of the eleven songs are the purest filler , dull instrumentals with a harmonica rifling over an indifferent rhythm section. The rest is magnificent
  • Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
  • A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics.
  • A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
  • A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
  • Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.
  • * Dryden
    • 'Tis mere filler , to stop a vacancy in the hexameter.
  • Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
  • (computing) In COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that contains no data relevant to a given context.
  • (horticulture) A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.

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