What's the difference between flinger and slinger?
Flinger
Definition:
(n.) One who flings; one who jeers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Join me here at 8pm to watch Paul Hollywood (tabloid cad) and Mary Berry (sainted flour-flinger) knead the nerves of the 8 sub-canvas hopefuls until one of them just crumbles like an old flapjack.
(2) 8.35pm BST "This challenge is Nigel Farage's worst nightmare," says Sue as she charges the tired flour-flingers with making 24 European buns.
Slinger
Definition:
(n.) One who slings, or uses a sling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The comedian Rob Auton, 30, has seen off competition from acclaimed pun-slingers including Tim Vine and Gary Delaney to pick up TV channel Dave's annual award for one-liners at the fringe.
(2) The mud-slingers: the most shocking presidential attack ads ever aired Read more Regardless, with much of the art focused on sex and politics, it seems particularly apt in an election in which women are accusing the Republican nominee of inappropriate sexual conduct .
(3) HPLC analysis showed that this increase in immunoreactivity resulted from the hydrolysis of six apolar compounds that cochromatographed with the ecdysteroid esters previously shown to be present in newly laid oothecae (A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, and A6; A. J. Slinger, L. N. Dinan, and R. E. Isaac (1986).
(4) And from what I see of the London office, where a desktop PC lies mouldering in the corner like a relic from another era, they're generally hip, young Mac slingers who hold their office meetings on Skype and are as likely to be collaborating on a Google document with a colleague in Brazil for a campaign in Portugal as they are to be working on a UK issue with the person sitting next to them.
(5) For actor Jonathan Slinger, an RSC stalwart currently playing Willy Wonka in the West End, the relaxed performance of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a revelation.
(6) Michael Shaw Huddersfield The EU must show itself capable of much more than standing by as thousands drown at its maritime border John Slinger • Will someone please explain the moral difference between the politicians who closed Britain’s door to Jews fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany and those who now want to shut out people trying to escape from the disaster that has engulfed them in North Africa and the Middle East?
(7) Together, they will collaborate on a new creative direction for the web slinger.
(8) That is a crucial point and one that is often overlooked by other burger slingers.
(9) Seemingly incidental characters include the married-socialite-turned-lesbian-communist Ms Dede Halcyon-Day, the terrifyingly normal Norman Neal Williams and Jon Fielding, fiction's hottest speculum-slinger.
(10) John Slinger (Labour party member from 1991 to September 2016) Chair of Pragmatic Radicalism • While Polly Toynbee correctly identifies the mathematical implausibility of Labour winning the next election alone ( 27 September ), that does not mean the Tories cannot be beaten.
(11) In his later years, he came to despise what he saw as tawdry dealings in overweight punch slingers with little of the skill that he had prized.
(12) John Slinger Rugby, Warwickshire • Perhaps a mass drop of leaflets in relevant languages over all the countries concerned, explaining the perils that await them, with graphic photos, might act as a deterrent.
(13) Ten days after the death of Trayvon Martin, Bo Morrison, 20, was shot dead by a homeowner in Slinger, Wisconsin, when he sought refuge on the man’s porch after an underage party was busted by police.
(14) It might sound a handy line for promoting the movie, but Garfield's delivery is deadpan, and he did grow up a bona fide Spider-Man nut, famously dressing up as the red and blue web-slinger for his first Halloween party.
(15) "I am invited to submit a script, and I whip off a word-slinger's delight wherein young take on old as a jukebox is tested in the Rovers' Return."