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Kinker vs Kinder - What's the difference?

kinker | kinder |

As nouns the difference between kinker and kinder

is that kinker is a performer in a circus while kinder is children.

As an adjective kinder is

comparative of kind.

kinker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A performer in a circus.
  • * 2006 , Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants , Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, pages 36-37:
    • "So, what's the vernacular then?" I say finally. ¶ "They're called kinkers," says Camel..."don't you go calling them 'kinkers' to their faces, neither." ¶ "What do I call them?" ¶ "Performers...There's them and there's us, and you're us," says Camel.

    Synonyms

    * performer

    kinder

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (kind)
    • My friends are kinder than teachers

    Anagrams

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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • children.
  • * 2008 December 31, Al Scaduto, They'll Do It Every Time (newspaper comic):
    • But - let wifey leave him with the kinder while out shopping...
  • * 2010 , Beth Rubin, Frommer's Washington D.C. with Kids , John Wiley & Sons (ISBN 9780470648506)
    • Of special interest to the kinder are The Children&
  • 39;s Place, Baby Gap, Gap Kids and Gap, Gymboree, The Limited, America!, and the Sweet Factory.
  • * 2012 , Charlotte Druckman, Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen , Chronicle Books (ISBN 9781452121307), page 192
    • Do note, as Goin mentions, this is a policy better implemented when the kinder are well past infancy.
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