Landscraper vs Landscaper - What's the difference?
landscraper | landscaper |
A building with a very large footprint; a horizontal megastructure.
* 2009 , Dennis Yusko, "
A piece of heavy equipment used to move earth.
* 1990 , "
(nonstandard) A gardener or landscaper.
* 1926 , Olive Dean Hormel, Co-Ed , Charles Scriber's Sons (1926), page 184:
As nouns the difference between landscraper and landscaper
is that landscraper is a building with a very large footprint; a horizontal megastructure while landscaper is one that does landscaping.landscraper
English
Etymology 1
By analogy with skyscraper .Noun
(en noun)Skidmore's sounds of music", The Times-Union , 28 December 2009:
- But the super structure already has been panned by local author and architectural critic James Howard Kunstler, who has called the building a "landscraper " the size of an aircraft carrier, and compared it unfavorably to a "gigantic brick Yule log" and Darth Vader's mask.
Quotations
*Etymology 2
land'' + ''scraperNoun
(en noun)Activists protest earth-moving at waste facility site", Mohave Daily MIner , 22 July 1990:
- "We caught them using a lot of heavy equipment — big landscrapers were moving out tons of dirt," said Marlene Stephens, of Don't Waste Arizona, a coalition of Arizona environmental groups fighting the toxic waste complex.
Quotations
*Etymology 3
Alteration of landscaper .Noun
(en noun)- "I loved flowers, too, and grew up in a garden, but it didn't make me single-minded or a landscraper . . . ."