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Trimmer vs Brimmer - What's the difference?

trimmer | brimmer |

As nouns the difference between trimmer and brimmer

is that trimmer is one who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments while brimmer is a cup brimming over with liquid.

As an adjective trimmer

is comparative of trim.

trimmer

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (trim)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
  • A device used to trim.
  • (nautical) a member of the crew who trims the sails.
  • Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest.
  • * 1848 , (Baron Macaulay), History of England , I.2:
    • Thus Halifax was a Trimmer on principle.
  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 9:
    • Lady Margaret Beaufort's third husband, Lord Stanley, an accomplished political trimmer , gave fair words but little commitment: the vast, well-armed Stanley retinues shadowed Henry's route southeast to the battlefield and waited, detached, to see how the chips fell.
  • (architecture) A beam into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys.

    • brimmer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cup brimming over with liquid.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth--the bar--when the wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out brimmers all round.
  • (dialect) A hat with a brim, especially a straw hat.