Wacker vs Backer - What's the difference?
wacker | backer |
(wack)
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Egregious
(From hip-hop slang) bad (as in not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, inauthentic, lame, or strange.
(slang) crazy, mad, insane
(phonetics) (back)
:: /e?/ This diphthong is a glide from mid front tongue position toward a higher, backer position similar to that of /?/.
English agent nouns
As an adjective wacker
is (wack).As a noun backer is
baker.wacker
English
Adjective
(head)wack
English
Adjective
(er)- Every record they ever made was straight-up wack .
Synonyms
* wackjob * wackobacker
English
Adjective
(head)- Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders , p. 174: