binner

See also: Binner

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɪnə(ɹ)/
  • (US) enPR: bĭnʹər, IPA(key): /ˈbɪnɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: bin‧ner

Etymology 1

bin + -er.

Noun

binner (plural binners)

  1. One who attempts to earn money from what can be recovered from trash bins, as coin-deposit bottles and cans.

Synonyms

Etymology 2

Noun

binner (plural binners)

  1. (Scotland, dialectal) A bickering noise.
  2. (Scotland, dialectal) A state of agitation; flurry.
    • 1915, H. Beaton, Benachie, pages 50, 163:
      Aye, if he wis comin' in his fite claes, bodybulk, I doot ye wid be a' in a binner, as weel's the horses. . . . I kent fin ye wis in sic a binner 'it a' wisna richt.

Verb

binner (third-person singular simple present binners, present participle binnering, simple past and past participle binnered)

  1. (Scotland, dialectal) To create a bickering noise.
    • 1768, A. Ross, Works (S.T.S.), page 163:
      To see the lambs come binn'ring down the brae.
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