Scarer vs Scarper - What's the difference?
scarer | scarper |
One who, or that which, scares.
* 1894 , William Crooke, An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India
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(British, slang) To run away; to flee; to escape.
* 1904 , John Coleman, Fifty years of an actors? life , Volume 1,
* 2001 , Ardal O'Hanlon, Knick Knack Paddy Whack ,
* 2007 , , [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2132043,00.html]
As a noun scarer
is one who, or that which, scares.As a verb scarper is
(british|slang) to run away; to flee; to escape.scarer
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Noun
(en noun)- The letter from a Raja is spotted with gold-leaf as a preservative, partly to divert the glance of fascination and partly because gold is a scarer of demons...
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Synonyms
* frightenerAnagrams
* *scarper
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Verb
(en verb)page 54,
- Out went the lights, as he continued, "That sneak Whiskers have just blown the gaff to old Slow-Coach, and he'll be here in two two's to give you beans — so scarper', laddies — ' scarper ! "
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- The tramps scarpered', the street-traders pushing prams '''scarpered''', half of Dublin ' scarpered as if they all had something to hide.
- Helm writes: 'As if she were some street criminal, ready to scarper , Ruth's home was swooped upon by [Assistant Commissioner John] Yates's men and she was forced to dress in the presence of a female police officer.