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Grazer vs Grazier - What's the difference?

grazer | grazier |

As nouns the difference between grazer and grazier

is that grazer is an animal that grazes while grazier is one who grazes cattle and/or sheep on a rural property.

grazer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An animal that grazes.
  • A television viewer with a short attention span who switches between channels regularly.
  • * 2004 , Stanley D. Brunn, Susan L. Cutter, J. W. Harrington Jr., Geography and Technology (page 330)
  • Grazers have a lower level of involvement and view only when "something is happening."

    grazier

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, historical) One who grazes cattle and/or sheep on a rural property.
  • Graziers on the tablelands are in dire straits because they do not have enough winter feed and will have to keep reducing stock.
  • (Australia) The owner of a large property on which sheep or cattle graze.
  • * 1963 , Colin Clark, Australian Hopes and Fears , page 75,
  • As a result of these causes the grazier' marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the ' graziers , only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted.
  • * 1996 , , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 44
  • They have been here, the bora rings, for over twenty thousand years, it is believed; it is only in the past hundred, a hiccup in time, that indifferent graziers and the treads of their four-wheel drives have scattered the stones and have imprinted zippered cars across their sacred clay skin.
  • * 2000 , Bill Pritchard, Phil McManus, Land of Discontent: The Dynamics of Change in Rural and Regional Australia , page 34,
  • The ‘grazier'’ image can be contrasted to that of the ‘cocky’. ' Graziers have tended to own large tracts of land, have inherited family wealth from the heady days of high wool prices, often reside in stately homes, possess a good education, and have taken leadership roles in the industry.

    Usage notes

    In Britain, the term is no longer used, but has historical significance.