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, 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
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See also
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblei̯ser/, [ˈble̞i̯s̠e̞r]
Declension
| Inflection of blazer (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | blazer | blazerit | ||
| genitive | blazerin | blazerien blazereiden blazereitten | ||
| partitive | blazeriä | blazereitä blazerejä | ||
| illative | blazeriin | blazereihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | blazer | blazerit | ||
| accusative | nom. | blazer | blazerit | |
| gen. | blazerin | |||
| genitive | blazerin | blazerien blazereiden blazereitten | ||
| partitive | blazeriä | blazereitä blazerejä | ||
| inessive | blazerissä | blazereissä | ||
| elative | blazeristä | blazereistä | ||
| illative | blazeriin | blazereihin | ||
| adessive | blazerillä | blazereillä | ||
| ablative | blazeriltä | blazereiltä | ||
| allative | blazerille | blazereille | ||
| essive | blazerinä | blazereinä | ||
| translative | blazeriksi | blazereiksi | ||
| abessive | blazerittä | blazereittä | ||
| instructive | — | blazerein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bla.zœʁ/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “blazer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈblej.zeʁ/ [ˈbleɪ̯.zeh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈblej.zeɾ/ [ˈbleɪ̯.zeɾ]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈblej.zeʁ/ [ˈbleɪ̯.zeχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈblej.zeɻ/ [ˈbleɪ̯.zeɻ]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈblɐj.zɛɾ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈblej.zɛɾ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈblej.zɛɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈble.zɛɾ/
- Hyphenation: bla‧zer
Romanian
Declension
Spanish
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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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