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Langer vs Sanger - What's the difference?

langer | sanger |

As nouns the difference between langer and sanger

is that langer is fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male) while sanger is a sandwich.

As proper nouns the difference between langer and sanger

is that langer is {{surname|from=German} while Sanger is {{surname|from=occupations}.

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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    sanger

    English

    Etymology 1

    Diminutive of sandwich; corruption of the earlier diminutive sango. Australian from 1960s.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, informal, colloquial) A sandwich.
  • * 1996 , , 2006, page 140,
    • I popped the last of the strawberry sangers into my mouth, craned my neck over the bureaucrat?s gelati-hued shoulder and feasted my eyes.
  • * 2005 , R. T. Stone, The Journals: Into the Gulf , Book 2, page 459,
    • Allison did most of the talking telling Sara of her victory, of meeting Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova—who won the Family Circle Open—of rubbing the elbows with the Australian elite, and making sangers (sandwiches) for broken families in Brisbane.
  • * 2009 , Justine Vaisutis, Australia , Lonely Planet, page 94,
    • Eat' Rock oysters, rock lobsters, yabbies and prawns; also Turkish bread ‘' sangers ’ and Tim Tam shooters
  • * 2009 , Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin , page 59,
    • Winning pub-grub at this enduring pub boozer: steak sangers , veggie lasagne, lamb-shank pie, king-prawn salad and blueberry pancakes.
    Synonyms
    * sango (qualifier) * sarnie (qualifier)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1895 , United States Cavalry Association, Journal of the United States Cavalry Association , Volume 8, page 223,
    • The enemy had a line of sangers' along the far edge of nullah right across the valley, with ' sangers at intervals up the steep mountains on either side into the snows, and occupied, as far as we could guess, by some 2,000 men.
  • * 1902 , Great Britain House of Commons, Sessional Papers , Volume 69, page 64,
    • At 4.30 a.m., under cover of a mist in the donga, the Boers made a very severe attack on the north and west of my position, the brunt of the attack fell on two sangers' held by the Durham Company of Artillery; the Boers broke through the wire and got to within 20 yards of those ' sangers , but they both gallantly held their own and I, with the aid of the Maxim, was able to repulse the attack.
  • * 1976 , Byron Farwell, The Great Boer War , page 93,
    • the Boer marksmen leaned over their sangers and fired on the helmeted heads below them.

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