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Richard vs Bender - What's the difference?

richard | bender |

As proper nouns the difference between richard and bender

is that richard is cognate to richard while bender is .

richard

English

Proper noun

(s)
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  • * ~1593 William Shakespeare: Richard III: Act V, Scene II :
    • What! do I fear myself? there's no one else by; / Richard' loves ' Richard ; that is, I am I.
  • * 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed'', ''The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862) , volume 3, page 212:
    • But we have known Williams and Richards , names not found in sacred story, but familiar to our country, prove as gracious saints as any Safe deliverance'', ''Fight the good fight of faith , or such like,
  • * 1985 , , Pride , ISBN 0394536363, page 97:
    • I'd love to live in our castle. First I'd change my name from Dickie to Richard . That's my real name and it's a good king name. I don't like being called Dickie anyway, and I don't want to be Dick Junior either because everybody starts calling you Junior. What I'd like to be called is Rich but I don't know how to start people doing it.

    • Related terms

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    bender

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, bends.
  • A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
  • (slang) A bout of heavy drinking.
    • He's been out on a bender with his mates.
  • * 1857 , Newspaper,'' April:Bartlett, ''Dictionary of Americanisms, Second Edition (1859), p. 29
  • *:A couple of students of Williams College went over to North Adams on a bender. This would have been serious matter under the best of circumstances, but each returned with a “brick in his hat,” etc.
  • (chiefly, UK, slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.
  • A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies
  • (obsolete, UK, slang) A sixpence.
  • *
  • (obsolete, slang, US) A spree, a frolic.
  • (obsolete, slang, US) Something exceptional.

    • Usage notes

    In sense “bout of heavy drinking”, usually in form “on a bender ”.

    Synonyms

    * (bout of heavy drinking) binge, spree, toot * (shelter) bender tent

    Derived terms

    * conduit bender * pipe bender

    References

    * Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, p. 96

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