Scarper vs Scarier - What's the difference?
scarper | scarier |
(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]
(scary)
Causing or able to cause fright
(US, colloquial, dated) Subject to sudden alarm; nervous, jumpy.
* 1916 , Texas Department of Agriculture, Bulletin (issues 47-57), page 150:
Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
As a verb scarper
is (british|slang) to run away; to flee; to escape.As an adjective scarier is
(scary).scarper
English
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 ! "
page 7,
- 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.
Anagrams
* *scarier
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*scary
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(er)- The tiger's jaws were scary.
- She was hiding behind her pillow during the scary parts of the film.
- (Whittier)
- And let us say to these interests that, until the Buy-It-Made-In-Texas movement co-operates with the farmers, we are going to be a little scary of the snare.