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Ricer vs Richer - What's the difference?

ricer | richer |

As a noun ricer

is a person, especially a Native American, who cultivates and harvests rice.

As an adjective richer is

comparative of rich.

ricer

English

(Potato ricer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US) A person, especially a Native American, who cultivates and harvests rice.
  • * 1967 , The New Yorker , Volume 43, Part 6, page 41:
    • He opened the cashbox and counted out the money, and Martin handed it on to one of the ricers .
    "Where are you guys ricing tomorrow?" he said.
    "Down in the Refuge," the ricer with the money said.
  • * 1988 , Thomas Vennum, Wild Rice and the Ojibway People , page 229:
    • In exchange for use of a buyer's boat, the ricers were to sell what they harvested exclusively to him.
  • * 1999' September 19, , ''Under the Wild Rice Moon'', ''Minneapolis Star Tribune'', reprinted in '''2002 , ''The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings , page 30:
    • There are also lots of ricers'. By two weeks into ricing season, Native Harvest bought from 30 or 40 ' ricers .
  • (cooking) A utensil used to extrude soft foods (such as, and especially, cooked potato) through holes about the diameter of a grain of rice.
  • * 2007 , Patricia Webster Stewart, Stuck in My Own Family Tree , page 25:
    • He cooked a roast, made applesauce with the ricer and used every size pan he could find to cook vegetables.
  • * 2008 , Leanne Kitchen, The Greengrocer , page 14:
    • Ricers can also be used for mashing other root vegetables, as well as starchy ones like broad (fava) beans and peas.
  • * 2013 , Tara Mataraza Desmond, Choosing Sides: From Holidays to Every Day, 130 Delicious Recipes to Make the Meal , unnumbered page:
    • Passing cooked chunks through a basic, inexpensive handheld ricer maximizes their texture, which is less starchy than their russet brethren, and makes a soft, dry pile that simply stirs into creamy, smooth mounds.
  • (US, slang, derogatory) An imported automobile from an Oriental country, deemed inferior because it is low-powered and/or cheap.
  • (US, slang, derogatory) A person who drives such an automobile.
  • (US, slang, derogatory) A person who modifies such an automobile using after-market parts to give it the appearance of being more powerful or sporty.

    • Synonyms

    * (imported oriental automobile) rice burner * (kitchen implement) potato masher, potato ricer

    Related terms

    * rice

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    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (rich).
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
    • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}