Floater vs Gloater - What's the difference?
floater | gloater |
Agent noun of float; one who or that which floats.
An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away.
A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour.
An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests.
(insurance ) A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
(police jargon ) A floating corpse picked up from a body of water.
(sports) An unaffiliated player.
(surfing) A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
(vulgar) A piece of faeces that floats.
(two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
(slang) Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that group, and repeatedly shows up to participate in group activities despite attempts to get rid of, or “flush,” that person.
(AU) A pie floater.
As nouns the difference between floater and gloater
is that floater is agent noun of float; one who or that which floats while gloater is one who gloats.floater
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia floater)- He left a floater in the toilet.
- 1998: In this section "floater" means a spin in which at least 1 of the coins does not turn over in the air at least once.'' — Queensland government ''Casino Gaming Amendment Rule (No. 2) 1998 [http://web.archive.org/web/20040730160912/http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/LEGISLTN/SLS/1998/98SL233.pdf]