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Skimmer vs Spimmer - What's the difference?

skimmer | spimmer |

As nouns the difference between skimmer and spimmer

is that skimmer is a device that skims while spimmer is one who sends spim (unsolicited instant messages).

skimmer

English

(wikipedia skimmer) (Rynchops)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A device that skims.
  • A person who skims.
  • Any of three species of bird in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.
  • Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clams and large scallops.
  • A ballet flat shoe.

    • Derived terms

    * black skimmer, Rynchops niger * African skimmer, Rynchops flavirostris * Indian skimmer, Rynchops albicollis

    spimmer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who sends spim (unsolicited instant messages).
  • * 2004 , Newsweek (volume 143, page iii)
    • Spam in e-mail isn't new. But as barriers to it have succeeded, spimmers have taken fresh aim at IM.
  • * 2004 , Larry Long, Personal Computing Demystified (page 225)
    • Most forecasters are predicting that spim will spin out of control as soon as spimmers find a way to abscond with large numbers of IM screen names, which are not as readily available as e-mail addresses.
  • * 2012 , Natarajan Meghanathan, ?Nabendu Chaki, ?Dhinaharan Nagamalai, Advances in Computer Science and Information Technology
    • Spimmers clog mobile devices by sending tones(SIC) of unwanted SMS or MMS and hence making the devices useless.