gazer

English

Etymology

gaze + -er

Noun

gazer (plural gazers)

  1. One who gazes.
    • 1595, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act II, Scene 2,
      I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; / I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book V, edited by Abraham Stoll, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Canto Eight, stanza 38, p. 113,
      Like lightening flash, that hath the gazer burned, / So did the sight thereof their sense dismay, / That backe againe upon themselves they turned, / And with their ryder ranne perforce away:
    • 1820, Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,"
      Knots of gazers and gossips were collected in the churchyard, at the bridge, and at the spot where the hat and pumpkin had been found.
    • 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910, pp. 86-7,
      I would observe, by the way, that it costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in.
    • 1914, Wassily Kandinsky, The Art of Spiritual Harmony, translated by M.T.H. Sadler, Houghton Mifflin, Chapter V, p. 49,
      Keen lemon-yellow hurts the eye in time as a prolonged and shrill trumpet-note the ear, and the gazer turns away to seek relief in blue or green.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɑ.ze/

Etymology 1

gaz + -er

Verb

gazer

  1. to gas (exterminate using gas)
  2. (slang) to smoke (a cigarette)
  3. (takes a reflexive pronoun, se gazer) to rage, to become irate
  4. (informal) to go well, to be well (feeling)
    ça gaze ? - how's it going?
    oui, ça gaze. - it's going alright
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Etymology 2

gaze + -er

Verb

gazer

  1. to gloss over; to cover up; to hush up
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