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Oner vs Oper - What's the difference?

oner | oper |

As nouns the difference between oner and oper

is that oner is (informal) an extraordinary individual while oper is (internet) a network operator on irc.

oner

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) An extraordinary individual.
  • A small marble of little worth in children's games.
  • * 2012 , Nicholas Hagger, A View of Epping Forest (page 143)
    • The winner was the last to flick a marble into the gully. A oner had to beat a fourer four times to win, a fourer had to beat a twelver three times, and so on.
  • (UK) A conker that has won one match.
  • * 1993 , (Henry Normal), Nude modelling for the afterlife
    • May all your conkers be oners / May your love life fail with dishonours
  • * 2005 , Benedict Le Vay, Eccentric Britain (page 32)
    • The history of 'oners' becoming 'sixers' through successive victories
  • * 2006 , Charles Campion, Fifty Recipes To Stake Your Life On (page 119)
    • Conkers so highly prized that it's a wonder they even manage to hit the ground before being swept away to be pickled or baked and then going on to new careers as 'oners' , 'twoers', and so forth.

    Synonyms

    * one of a kind

    Anagrams

    * * *

    oper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Internet) A network operator on IRC.
  • * 2000 , Howard Rheingold, The virtual community: homesteading on the electronic frontier (issue 28, page 187)
    • Chanops can kick people off a channel; opers can ban people logging in from specific Internet sites from participating in IRC.

    Synonyms

    * IRCop

    Related terms

    * chanop * op * deop * reop