blazer
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 (AU) (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 960102938, stanza 25:
- blazers of crime
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- (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.
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
Derived terms
- trailblazer
Translations
a jacket
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See also
- blazar
Anagrams
- Balzer, Brazel
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bla.zœʁ/
Audio (file)
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
Noun
blazer m (plural blazers)
- Alternative spelling of blêizer
Romanian
Etymology
From English blazer.
Noun
blazer n (plural blazere)
- blazer
Declension
Declension of blazer
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) blazer | blazerul | (niște) blazere | blazerele |
genitive/dative | (unui) blazer | blazerului | (unor) blazere | blazerelor |
vocative | blazerule | blazerelor |
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English blazer.
Noun
blazer m (plural blazeres)
- blazer
Further reading
- “blazer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014