Sinner vs Binner - What's the difference?
sinner | binner |
One who attempts to earn money from what can be recovered from trash bins, as coin-deposit bottles and cans.
(Scottish, dialect) A bickering noise.
(Scottish, dialect) A state of agitation; flurry.
* 1915 , H. Beaton, Benachie , pages 50, 163:
(Scottish, dialect) To create a bickering noise.
* 1768 , A. Ross, Works (S.T.S.) , page 163:
As a noun sinner
is a person who has sinned.As a proper noun binner is
of german origin.sinner
English
Hyponyms
* fasiq (one who has sinned by violating Islamic law)Anagrams
* ---- ==Jèrriais==binner
English
Etymology 1
(bin).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* dumpster diverEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Aye, if he wis comin' in his fite claes, bodybulk, I doot ye wid be a' in a binner', as weel's the horses. . . . I kent fin ye wis in sic a ' binner 'it a' wisna richt.
Verb
(en verb)- To see the lambs come binn'ring down the brae.