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Razor vs Kruegeresque - What's the difference?

razor | kruegeresque |

As a noun razor

is a keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.

As a verb razor

is to cut with a razor.

As an adjective kruegeresque is

(rare) reminiscent of (1984), who wears a razor glove.

razor

English

(Wikipedia)

Alternative forms

* razour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.
  • Any tool or instrument designed for shaving.
  • The sharp tusk of a wild boar.
  • (philosophy) A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.

    • Derived terms

    * cutthroat razor * disposable razor * Occam's razor * razor blade * razor bump * razor comb * razor clam * razor-sharp * razor strap / razor strop * razor-thin * straight razor

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cut with a razor.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 13, author=Sara Corbett, title=Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=He might be busy examining the advertisements for prostitutes stuck up in a São Paulo phone booth, or maybe getting his ear hairs razored off at a barber shop in Vietnam. }}

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    kruegeresque

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Reminiscent of (1984), who wears a razor glove.
  • * 1997 , Walter de Gruyter & Co, Humor, Volume 10?
    • Most of the work of these comics — even when they are screaming or sneering in Kruegeresque tones — is only analogous to the explicit violence of the killing joke...
  • * 2000 , Alain Silver, James Ursini, The horror film reader
    • Helen even utters a Freddy Kruegeresque one-liner...
  • * 2001 , Frederick S Clarke, Cinefantastique, Volumes 33-34?
    • To be sure, SPRIGGAN, like AKIRA, is filled with slick blood and gore (the cackling Little Boy, with his Freddy Kruegeresque wire-cutter claw attachments...
  • * 2004 , Jim Harper, Legacy of blood: a comprehensive guide to slasher movies?
    • The driller killer's attempts at Kruegeresque one-liners fall pretty flat, although the cast are fairly funny as they run around desperately trying to look scared.