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Sorner vs Horner - What's the difference?

sorner | horner |

As nouns the difference between sorner and horner

is that sorner is (scotland) one who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board while horner is (informal) someone who is from the horn of africa.

As a proper noun horner is

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sorner

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Scotland) One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board.
    • (De Quincey)
    (Webster 1913)

    horner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who works or deals in horn or horns.
    • (Grew)
  • * 1873 , Calendar of State Papers
    • As also all patents for new inventions not put in practice within three years, likewise the several grants of incorporation to hatband makers, gutstring makers, spectacle makers, comb makers, tobacco-pipe makers, butchers, and horners .
  • (obsolete) One who blows a horn.
    • (Sherwood)
  • (obsolete) One who horns or cuckolds.
    • (Massinger)
  • The British sand lance or sand eel, Ammodytes lanceolatus .
    • (Webster 1913)