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Laker vs Lanker - What's the difference?

laker | lanker |

As a noun laker

is a player; an actor.

As an adjective lanker is

comparative of lank.

laker

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) *. More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A player; an actor.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical, North America) A ship used on the Great Lakes.
  • A wharfman who resides near a lake.
    • Hyponyms
    * (watercraft) straight decker, stern-ender, whaleback

    lanker

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (lank)

    • Anagrams

    *

    lank

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
  • * Meager and lank with fasting grown. - .
  • * Who would not choose ... to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? - .
  • * Blacks in the fields, lank'' and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. - 1985 , chapter 1.
  • (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (often associated with being greasy)
  • * Lank hair, long, thin hair. -
  • (obsolete) languid; drooping.
  • * Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. -
    • (Macaulay)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To become lank; to make lank.
    • (Webster 1913)

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