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Mister vs Sprayer - What's the difference?

mister | sprayer |

As nouns the difference between mister and sprayer

is that mister is title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also (often parent to young child) referring to a man whose name is unknown while sprayer is an object used for spraying, e.g. a spray bottle.

As a verb mister

is to address by the title of "mister".

mister

English

Etymology 1

Unaccented variant of

Noun

(en noun)
  • Title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also (often parent to young child) referring to a man whose name is unknown.
    • You may sit here, mister .
    Go and ask that mister if you can get your ball out of his garden.
  • * 1855 , George Musalas Colvocoresses, Four Years in the Government Exploring Expedition , J. M. Fairchild & co., page 358:
    • Fine day to see sights, gentlemen. Well, misters , here's the railing round the ground, and there's the paling round the tomb, eight feet deep, six feet long, and three feet wide.
  • * 1908 , Jack Brand, By Wild Waves Tossed: An Ocean Love Story , The McClure Company, page 90:
    • There's only three misters aboard this ship, or, rather, there's only two.
    Coordinate terms
    * (title of adult male) master, mistress, , Doctor

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To address by the title of "mister".

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mester, (meister) (et al.), from (etyl) misterium, a medieval conflation of (etyl) .David Wallace, Chaucerian polity: absolutist lineages and associational forms in England and Italy , Stanford University Press, 1997

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
  • A kind, type of.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
    • The Redcrosse knight toward him crossed fast, / To weet, what mister wight was so dismayd.
  • (obsolete) Need (of something).
  • * :
    • And thenne the grene knyghte kneled doune / and dyd hym homage with his swerd / thenne said the damoisel me repenteth grene knyghte of your dommage / and of youre broders dethe the black knyghte / for of your helpe I had grete myster / For I drede me sore to passe this forest / Nay drede you not sayd the grene knyghte / for ye shal lodge with me this nyghte / and to morne I shalle helpe you thorou this forest
  • (obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.
  • * :
    • It was by Merlyns auyse said the knyghte / As for hym sayd kynge Carados / I wylle encountre with kynge bors / and ye wil rescowe me whan myster is / go on said they al / we wil do all that we may

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, impersonal) To be necessary; to matter.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
    • As for my name, it mistreth not to tell; / Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well.

    Etymology 3

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device that makes or sprays mist.
    • Odessa D. uses a mister Sunday to fight the 106-degree heat at a NASCAR race in Fontana, California.
    Derived terms
    * demister

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    Anagrams

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    sprayer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an object used for spraying, e.g. a spray bottle

    • Anagrams

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