different between passer vs pisser

English

Etymology

pass +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??s?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæs??/
• Rhymes: -æs?(?)

Noun

passer (plural passers)

1. One who succeeds in passing a test, etc.
   • 2008, David L. Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman, Health Measurement Scales

     The distributions of scores on the exam for passers and failers are plotted […]

2. One who passes something along; a distributor.

   a passer of counterfeit banknotes

3. (sports) Someone who passes, someone who makes a pass.
   1. (American football) A football player who makes a forward pass, who may be (but not limited to) the quarterback.
4. (chess) A passed pawn.
5. (archaic) One who passes; a passer-by.
   • 1904, National Magazine (volume 20, page 147)

     Passers stopped and began to stare. A policeman was approaching up the street. Dave dodged back into the cab and banged the door.

6. (sociology) One who is able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard them as belonging.

Translations

See also

• passer-by

Anagrams

• Arpses, Aspers, Spears, Speras, aspers, parses, prases, presas, repass, sarpes, spares, sparse, spaser, spears

Danish

Etymology 1

From German Passer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pas?r/, [?p?as?]

Noun

passer c (singular definite passeren, plural indefinite passere)

1. compass, pair of compasses
2. dividers
3. calipers

Inflection

See also

• passer on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 2

See passere (“to pass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pase?r/, [p?a?se???]

Verb

passer or passér

1. imperative of passere

Dutch

Etymology

From passen (“to measure a size”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s?r

Noun

passer m (plural passers, diminutive passertje n)

1. compass (device used with a pencil to draw an arc or circle on paper)

French

Etymology

From Middle French passer, from Old French passer, from Vulgar Latin *pass?, *pass?re, from Latin passus, past participle of pand? (“I stretch, I spread out”). Compare Italian passare, Spanish pasar, Portuguese passar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.se/, /pa.se/

Verb

passer

1. to go past
2. to cross (a border)
3. (law) to pass

4. to spend (time)

5. to publish (a newspaper)
6. (transitive) to take, to sit (an exam or test)

7. (intransitive) to pass (an exam or test)

8. (dated) (transitive) to pass (an exam or test)

9. (public transportation) to run

10. to exceed (a limit)
11. to percolate
12. to hand down, to pass on
13. to be allowed
14. (intransitive) to pass, to go (between two entities)
15. (transitive) to show (a movie)
16. to go up (a grade)
17. to shift (change gear)
    1. to go down
    2. to go up
18. to stop by, to pop in

19. to pass away, to die
20. (music) to spin (e.g. a disk)
21. (television) to show (be on television)
22. (sports) to pass (kick, throw, hit etc. the ball to another player)
23. (athletics) to pass (the relay baton)
24. to pass on (infect someone else with a disease)
25. (transitive) to put, to place, to slip (move a part of one's body somewhere else)
    • 1908, Gaston Leroux, Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, 2009 edition, Wikisource, chapter 1:

      [...] et, par-dessus les volets, les barreaux intacts, des barreaux à travers lesquels vous n’auriez pas passé le bras…

      • 1908, anonymous, Margaret Jull Costa (editor), The Mystery of the Yellow Room, 2003 edition (Dedalus, ?ISBN:

        [...] and, as well as those shutters, there were iron bars so close together that you could not even have got your arm through them.

26. to wipe, rub

27. to skip a go
28. to put (make something undergo something)
29. (card games) to pass (not play upon one's turn)
30. (reflexive) to take place, to happen, to come to pass.

31. (reflexive, for time) to go by
32. (reflexive, with de) to do without

33. to don

Usage notes

• This verb uses the auxiliary verb avoir when used transitively (or with a transitive sense, even when the complement is omitted); otherwise (when it is intransitive), it uses être.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (reflexive, to happen): se produire, arriver

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Alemannic German: passiere
• ? German: passieren
• ? Romanian: pasa

Further reading

• “passer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• pressa

Ladin

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pass?, *pass?re, from Latin passus.

Verb

passer

1. to proceed

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *passros, from Proto-Indo-European *p(e)t-tro-s (“who flies, bird”), from *peth?- (“to fly”). Related to penna.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pas.ser/, [?päs???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pas.ser/, [?p?s??r]

Noun

passer m (genitive passeris); third declension

1. sparrow
2. turbot

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• passercula, passerculus
• passer?nus

Descendants

References

• passer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• passer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• passer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 449

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French passer.

Verb

passer

1. to pass; to go by

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: passer
  • ? Alemannic German: passiere
  • ? German: passieren
  • ? Romanian: pasa

References

• passer on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

passer

1. imperative of passere
2. present of passe

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pass?, *pass?re, from Latin passus (“a step, pace, footstep, track”).

Verb

passer

1. to pass; to pass by

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-sss, *-sst are modified to s, s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• Middle French: passer
  • French: passer
    • ? Alemannic German: passiere
    • ? German: passieren
    • ? Romanian: pasa
• Norman: pâsser, pâssaïr
• ? Middle Dutch: passen
  • Dutch: passen
• ? Middle English: passen
  • English: pass
  • Scots: pass
• ? Middle High German: passen
  • German: passen

Further reading

• pass in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Middle English pissere; equivalent to piss +? -er (“agent noun”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s?(r)

Noun

pisser (plural pissers)

1. (mildly vulgar) One who pisses.
2. (mildly vulgar) That which pisses, particularly a penis.
3. (US dialect, slang, mildly vulgar) Someone or something impressive or remarkable.
4. (Britain, slang, mildly vulgar) A disappointing or frustrating situation or event.
5. (chiefly US, mildly vulgar, slang) That into which one pisses: a toilet or urinal.
6. (Australia, slang, mildly vulgar) An extremely amusing person or thing.
7. (informal) Synonym of piss clam

Synonyms

• (vulgar slang for toilet): See shitter and Thesaurus:toilet

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary. "pisser, n."

Anagrams

• 'spires, Persis, Speirs, Spiers, persis, prises, resips, spiers, spires

Dutch

Etymology

From pissen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s?r

Noun

pisser m (plural pissers, diminutive pissertje n)

1. (literally) one who pisses
2. (figuratively) penis
3. (figuratively) amateur

Synonyms

• plasser

French

Etymology

From Old French pissier, from Vulgar Latin *pissi?re, present active infinitive of *pissi?, of originally Germanic origin or more likely of echoic origin. Cognates include Catalan pixar, Italian pisciare, Romanian pi?a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.se/

Verb

pisser

1. (transitive, intransitive, slang) to piss
2. (transitive) to pour with (some liquid)

   Et, au milieu de cette buée amassée goutte à goutte, de cette évaporation continue des trois marmites, où fondaient les cochons, il n'était certainement pas, du plancher au plafond, un clou qui ne pissât la graisse.

   And, in the midst of that steam built up drop by drop, that continual evaporation from the three pots where the pigs were stewing, there wasn't a single nail from floor to ceiling which wasn't pouring with grease. (Emile Zola, Le Ventre de Paris)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• ne plus se sentir pisser
• pisse
• pissenlit
• pisseur, pisseuse
• pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse

Further reading

• “pisser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• prises, prisse

Middle English

Noun

pisser

1. Alternative form of pissere

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French pissier, from Vulgar Latin *pissi?

Verb

pisser

1. (vulgar) to piss (excrete urine)

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

pisser

1. present of pisse