Passer vs Passel - What's the difference?
passer | passel |
One who succeeds in passing a test, etc.
* 2008 , David L. Streiner, ?Geoffrey R. Norman, Health Measurement Scales
(sports) Someone who passes, someone who makes a pass.
# (American football) A football player who makes a forward pass, who may be (but not limited to) the quarterback.
(chess) A passed pawn.
(archaic) One who passes; a passenger.
One who is able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard them as belonging.
* 2014 , Risa Bear, Homecomings , page 69:
As a verb passer
is (label) to pass.As a noun passel is
(us|informal) an indeterminately large quantity or group.passer
English
Noun
(en noun)- The distributions of scores on the exam for passers and failers are plotted
- Passers and would-be passers make every effort to be convincing in their chosen gender role