Masker

//ˈmæskə(ɹ)// name, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade or wears a mask in a ritual.

    "But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away […]."

  2. 2
    a participant in a masquerade wordnet
  3. 3
    That which masks (noise in a signal, etc.).
Verb
  1. 1
    To render giddy or senseless dialectal, transitive

    "To masker their troubled heads the more, hee assaileth them with a great shout and maine violence."

  2. 2
    To be bewildered. dialectal, intransitive
  3. 3
    To choke; stifle. dialectal, transitive
  4. 4
    To decay; rust. dialectal, transitive
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

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bewilderconfuseconfuseimpersonatorincognitomasquer

Example

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"To masker their troubled heads the more, hee assaileth them with a great shout and maine violence."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English *maskeren, malskren (“to bewilder”) (compare Middle English bimalscren (“to bewitch”)), from Old English *malscrian (attested in derivative malscrung (“enchantment, charm”)), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *malskaz (“haughty”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“to beat, crush, grind”). Cognate with Middle Dutch malsch (“headstrong, zealous”). More at mask.

Etymology 2

From mask + -er.

Related phrases

pro-masker

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