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Zinger vs Ringer - What's the difference?

zinger | ringer |

As nouns the difference between zinger and ringer

is that zinger is a very rapidly moving object, especially one that is thrown while ringer is (label) a fan of the novel (the lord of the rings) by and/or the film trilogy based on it.

zinger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A very rapidly moving object, especially one that is thrown.
    • The pitcher threw a real zinger and struck him out.
  • A surprising or unusually pointed or telling remark.
    • My little niece let fly with the zinger that my sister was pregnant again.
  • An event that when experienced leaves the witness dazed, either physically or metaphorically.
    • I was still reeling from the zinger of seeing my ex on a date with my best friend.
  • An outstanding, energetic and surprising thing or person.

    • Synonyms

    * one-liner

    ringer

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
  • * 1863 , ,
    • Pull, if ye never pull?d before;
    Good ringers , pull your best," quoth he.
  • (mining) A crowbar.
    • (Simmonds)

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
  • (uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.

    • Etymology 3

    Probably from ring the changes.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (horse racing) A horse fraudently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
  • (sport) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
  • A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; now usually in the phrase dead ringer .
    • Derived terms
    * dead ringer

    Etymology 4

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A top performer.
  • (Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
  • (Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
  • * 1964 , Alec Bolton, Walkabout?s Australia , , page 107,
    • The ringers are the stockmen on a station. The cattle pass through their hands before the drovers lift them and take them along the stock routes that lead to the killing pens in cities.
  • * 1987 , Geoffrey Atkinson, Philip Quirk. The Australian Adventure: The Explorer?s Guide to the Island Continent , page 175,
    • This vast holding is run by six ringers' and six boys. A '''ringer''' is a qualified stationhand and a boy is a trainee. It takes four years for a boy to become a ' ringer .
  • * 2005 , Jake Drake, The Wild West in Australia and America , page 156,
    • Most people associated with the Australian beef industry believe the ringer?s skill of throwing cattle by the tail to be a practice that is purely Australian. There is ample evidence however, that it was practised in South and Central America long before it was developed here.

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