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)

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• Rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)

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.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 25:

     blazers of crime

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.

Derived terms

• trailblazer

 

Translations

a jacket

• Afrikaans: kleurbaadjie, skoolbaadjie
• Bulgarian: бле́йзър m (bléjzǎr)
• Czech: blejzr m
• Dutch: blazer (nl)
• Estonian: bleiser
• Finnish: klubitakki, bleiseri (fi)
• French: blazer (fr) m
• German: Blazer (de) m
• Hebrew: מִקְטֹרֶן‎ (he) m (miqtóren)
• Hungarian: blézer (hu)
• Italian: giacca (it) f, blazer (it)
• Japanese: ブレザー (burezā)
• Macedonian: блејзер m (blejzer)
• Polish: blezer m
• Portuguese: blazer (pt) m, blêizer (pt) m
• Russian: бле́йзер (ru) m (blɛ́jzer)
• Spanish: blazer m, vestón m, saco (es) m
• Ukrainian: бле́йзер m (bléjzer)

See also

• blazar

 

Anagrams

• Balzer, Brazel

Catalan

Noun

blazer m (plural blazers)

1. blazer (jacket)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bla.zœʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

blazer m (plural blazers)

1. 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)

1. Alternative spelling of blêizer

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English blazer.

Noun

blazer n (plural blazere)

1. blazer

Declension

Declension of blazer

	singular		plural
	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)

1. blazer

Further reading

• “blazer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014