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Langer vs Langet - What's the difference?

langer | langet |

As an adjective langer

is .

As a noun langet is

a collar, also called horse collar (part of harness) .

langer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang, Ireland, pejorative) Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).
  • * 1996 , Enda Walsh, Disco Pigs , ISBN 1854593986, p. 8:
    • "Give it up will ya! get a job, ja langer !"
  • * 2006 , September 3, Brendan O'Connor Roy: the discreet object of our desire, Irish Independent :
    • And central to it all is wind-up, making a langer out of people, to use that now unfortunate word that can still only be used correctly and said correctly by Cork people, even though the rest of the country has taken to it with gusto, embarrassing themselves like white people trying to talk black slang to be "street".
  • * 2006 November 22, Hurling abuse when there’s no team in sight, Irish Independent :
    • "Langers boy, every wan of ‘em. Golfers are only langers. They’re only golfing cos they can’t hurl. Anyone that golfs in Cork is only a failed hurler and a langer, boy. "
  • (slang, Ireland, vulgar) Penis.
  • * , "Taking on PJ" in Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs. the Ugly American , ed. Ken Bruen, p.23, ISBN 1888451920:
    • Mike opened his knees wide, so that his langer would be framed by the gap between his legs. For first impressions a boner would have been good, but not likely.
  • * , All of These People: A Memoir , p.88, ISBN 0007176929:
    • He showed me a photograph. There was a woman and a man doing something, but I wasn't sure what. The man was standing over the woman holding his langer (the Cork word) and she was looking up at him smiling. I felt ill and started to walk backwards.

    Usage notes

    * Originally and mainly restricted to

    Synonyms

    * (annoying or contemptible person) dickhead, knob, asshole, shithead, wanker * (penis) See also

    Derived terms

    * langers, langered, acting the langer, langerload

    External links

    * The Gentrification of Langer?, Finbarr Barry, peoplesrepublicofcork * langer from the Hiberno-English archive

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    langet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long thin strip of metal (usually either two or four) extending from the head of a staff weapon (such as a halberd) down a certain length of the wooden shaft, secured with nails or screws and designed to prevent splitting or breakage of the wood.
  • In some swords, an extension of the guard located on both flats of the blade, designed to fit tightly over the mouth of a scabbard and prevent accidental unsheathing.

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