Waster vs Taster - What's the difference?
waster | taster |
Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
(dialectal) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.
(obsolete, chiefly, fencing) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
*, II.3.6:
That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
One who tastes anything, especially food, wine etc., for quality.
* Dryden
(zoology) A kind of zooid situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora, resembling the feeding zooids, but destitute of mouths.
A person who is, by genetic makeup, able to taste phenylthiocarbamide
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As nouns the difference between waster and taster
is that waster is someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly while taster is that in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.waster
English
Etymology 1
Partly from (etyl) wastere, wastour, partly from .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
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* time-wasterEtymology 2
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)- Or, as they that play at wasters exercise themselves by a few cudgels how to avoid an enemy's blows, let us arm ourselves against all such violent incursions which may invade our minds.
Anagrams
* English agent nouns ----taster
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thy tutor be thy taster , ere thou eat.