Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
blazer
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Remove ads
See also: Blazer
English
Etymology
From blaze + -er. Originates from the 'blazing' scarlet jackets worn by members of Lady Margaret Boat Club, the rowing club associated with St. John's College, Cambridge. Compare Old English blæsere, blasere (“burner, incendiary”, literally “blazer”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbleɪzə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbleɪzɚ/
Audio (General American): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
Noun
blazer (plural blazers)
- A semi-formal jacket.
- A person or thing that blazes (marks or cuts a route).
- Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.
- The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brazier.
- (slang, US) One who smokes cannabis; a stoner.
- (archaic) One who spreads news, or blazes matters abroad.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 25:
- blazers of crime
- (slang, UK) An older member of a sporting club, often with old-fashioned or conservative views.
- A con or swindle.
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
- "What'd I tell you?" said Bill. "The old wolverine was tryin' to run a blazer on us. All he needed was to be showed we meant business. And he can't make no trouble for us when he gets out, 'cause our two words are better'n his."
- 2004, Louis L'Amour, Utah Blaine: A Novel, →ISBN:
- These folks don't take kindly to no brash stranger comin' in here tryin' to run a blazer on 'em.
- 2016, Eugene Cunningham, Triggernometry: A Gallery Of Gunfighters, →ISBN:
- Bad, he doubtless was. But when he tried to run a blazer on this grim little cowman, Slaughter had run him.
Derived terms
Translations
semiformal jacket
|
See also
Anagrams
Remove ads
Catalan
Noun
blazer m (plural blazers)
- blazer (jacket)
Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
blazer
- alternative spelling of bleiseri (“blazer”) (type of jacket)
Declension
Remove ads
French
Pronunciation
Noun
blazer m (plural blazers)
- blazer (jacket)
Further reading
- “blazer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: bla‧zer
Noun
blazer m (plural blazers)
- alternative spelling of blêizer
Remove ads
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
blazer n (plural blazere)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English blazer.
Noun
blazer m (plural blazeres)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- “blazer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
Remove ads
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads