单词 | stropper |
释义 | stropper in British English (ˈstrɒpə) noun a strop or leather strip used for sharpening razors stropper in American English (ˈstrɑpər) noun 1. a person who strops 2. a mechanical instrument for honing double-edged blades for safety razors Word origin [1700–10; strop + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1700–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: camera, cozy, envelope, hump, marquise-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner) |
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