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Rockier vs Rocker - What's the difference?

rockier | rocker |

As an adjective rockier

is (rocky).

As a noun rocker is

rocker (someone passionate about rock music).

rockier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (rocky)

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    rocky

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Unstable; easily rocked.
    • The table was rocky , so we put a book under one leg.
  • In the style of rock and roll music.
    • His new album is quite rocky .
  • (figuratively) Troubled; or difficult; in danger or distress.
    • Their relationship had weathered some rocky times, but they loved each other.
    Derived terms
    * rocky chair

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks.
    • a rocky mountain
    a rocky shore
  • Like a rock.
    • ''the rocky orb of a shield
  • (figuratively) Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.
    • Derived terms
    * rocky road

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    rocker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
  • Hence, a rocking chair
  • (surfing) The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
    • All modern surfboards share a similar rocker design — Bruce Jones [http://www.brucejones.com/longboar.htm]
  • Someone passionate about rock music.
  • A musician who plays rock music.
  • (informal) A rock music song.
  • * Pitchfork Media [http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7852-the-top-200-tracks-of-the-1990s-50-21/3/]
    • "Girls & Boys" is
  • One who rocks something.
  • * Fuller
    • It was I, sir, said the rocker , who had the honour, some thirty years since, to attend on your highness in your infancy.
  • (UK) A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music.
  • Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
  • A rocking horse.
  • A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
  • (engineering) A rock shaft.

    • Derived terms

    * off one's rocker

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