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Waster vs Taster - What's the difference?

waster | taster |

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)
  • Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
  • (dialectal) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.
  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * time-waster

    Etymology 2

    Origin unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, chiefly, fencing) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
  • *, II.3.6:
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Thy tutor be thy taster , ere thou eat.
  • (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
  • Anagrams

    * ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Noun

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