different between sporter vs snorter

English

Etymology

sport +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)

Noun

sporter (plural sporters)

1. Someone who sports something.
2. (firearms) A firearm suitable for sporting use.
3. (archaic) One who takes part in sport or games.
   • 1780, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer

     Charles Lack-wit will have it given out, he is retired into the country, only for the reputation of being thought a man of fashion, when all the while his retirement is to be incessantly hurried with the violence of a madman after a pack of yelping hounds; or brutally murdering whole months of delicious time in noisy laughter, wine, and ribaldry, with Sir Jolly Timberscull, 'Squire Humdrum, and the rest of the club of gentlemen sporters.

4. One who sports or plays with something; a trifler.
   • 1823, The Monthly Gazette of Health (page 557)

     We have, however, good reason to suspect the Legislature will soon adopt means of rewarding the ingenuity of these indirect sporters with human life.

Anagrams

• Trosper, perrots, porrets, porters, presort, pretors, proters, reports, tropers

Dutch

Etymology

Either from sporten +? -er or borrowed from English sporter. The verb sporten is attested a few years later than sporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?r.t?r/
• Hyphenation: spor?ter

Noun

sporter m (plural sporters, diminutive sportertje n)

1. one who plays a sport (habitually) [from ca. 1890]

Related terms

• sporten

Anagrams

• stroper

English

Etymology

snort +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)

Noun

snorter (plural snorters)

1. One who snorts.
2. (slang) something that is extraordinary or remarkable

   The batsman succumbed to a snorter of short balls from the bowler and nicked a thin edge to the keeper.

3. (Britain, slang) something that is extremely difficult

   The maths problem is a real snorter, isn't it?

Anagrams

• Torrens, rentors, retrons