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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

Noun

blazer (plural blazers)

  1. A semi-formal jacket.
  2. A person or thing that blazes (marks or cuts a route).
  3. Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.
  4. The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brazier.
  5. (slang, US) One who smokes cannabis; a stoner.
  6. (archaic) One who spreads news, or blazes matters abroad.
  7. (slang, UK) An older member of a sporting club, often with old-fashioned or conservative views.
  8. 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.

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Catalan

Noun

blazer m (plural blazers)

  1. blazer (jacket)

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈblei̯ser/, [ˈble̞i̯s̠e̞r]
  • Rhymes: -eiser

Noun

blazer

  1. alternative spelling of bleiseri (blazer) (type of jacket)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...
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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bla.zœʁ/
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Noun

blazer m (plural blazers)

  1. blazer (jacket)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: bla‧zer

Noun

blazer m (plural blazers)

  1. alternative spelling of blêizer
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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English blazer.

Noun

blazer n (plural blazere)

  1. blazer

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English blazer.

Noun

blazer m (plural blazeres)

  1. blazer

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.

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