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Swiss vs Gigeresque - What's the difference?

swiss | gigeresque |

As adjectives the difference between swiss and gigeresque

is that swiss is of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland or the Swiss people while Gigeresque is reminiscent of H. R. Giger (born 1940), Swiss surrealist painter best known for nightmarish biomechanical imagery.

As a noun Swiss

is a person from Switzerland or of Swiss descent.

As a verb swiss

is to prepare (meat, fabric, etc.) by rolling or pounding in order to soften it.

swiss

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland or the Swiss people.

    • See also

    * Alemannic * Schweizerdeutsch * * Swiss German

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A person from Switzerland or of Swiss descent.

    • Derived terms

    * Swiss Army knife * Swiss Army penknife * Swiss cheese * Swiss dagger * Swiss franc * Swiss German * Swiss roll

    gigeresque

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Reminiscent of (born 1940), Swiss surrealist painter best known for nightmarish biomechanical imagery.
  • * 2007 , Keith Williams, H.G. Wells, modernity and the movies (page 164)
    • Quatermass also mediated Wellsian influence on the tone and preoccupations of the new hybrid SF–horror-film genre, with its monstrous Gigeresque fusions of machine and organism
    English eponyms