Mazer vs Mamzer - What's the difference?
mazer | mamzer |
(obsolete) The maple tree, or maple wood.
(archaic, or, historical) A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl.
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 16:
a child who is born out of wedlock, from an incestuous relationship or from parents of different faiths; a bastard
a contemptible person, an asshole, a jerk
As nouns the difference between mazer and mamzer
is that mazer is the maple tree, or maple wood while mamzer is a child who is born out of wedlock, from an incestuous relationship or from parents of different faiths; a bastard.mazer
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Alternative forms
* maserNoun
(en noun)- Presently he rose up and set before each young man some meat in a charger and drink in a large mazer , treating me in like manner; and after that they sat questioning me concerning my adventures and what had betided me
