steamer

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈstiːmə/
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• General-American: /ˈstimɚ/
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• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -iːmə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: S T IY1 M ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From steam + -er. The steamer duck or steamer (sense 6.2) is apparently named for its resemblance to a paddle steamer when swimming rapidly. The feces sense comically evokes the idea of steaming hot food and probably reflects that fresh feces sometimes give off visible water vapor in cold outdoor conditions such as those encountered by hunters, campers, and soldiers.

From steam tug, rhyming slang for mug (“a gullible or easily cheated person; a stupid or contemptible person”).

105 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بَاخِرَة (bāḵira) — vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam
• Chinese Mandarin: 汽船 (qìchuán) — vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam
• Chinese Mandarin: 輪船 /轮船 (lúnchuán) — vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam
• Finnish: höyrypesuri — vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam
• Finnish: höyrytin — vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam
• Galician: barco de vapor — vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam
• German: Dampfer — vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam
• Italian: vaporetto — vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam
• Italian: battello a vapore — vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam
• Japanese: 蒸気船 (jōkisen) — vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam
• Polish: parowar — vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam
• Portuguese: caldeira de vapor — vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam
• Russian: отпа́риватель (otpárivatelʹ) — vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam
• Arabic: قِدْر بُخَارِيّ (qidr buḵāriyy) — cooking appliance
• Catalan: vaporadora — cooking appliance
• Chinese Cantonese: 蒸籠 /蒸笼 — cooking appliance
• Chinese Cantonese: 蒸煲 — cooking appliance
• Chinese Mandarin: 蒸籠 /蒸笼 (zhēnglóng) — cooking appliance
• Chinese Mandarin: 蒸鍋 /蒸锅 (zhēngguō) — cooking appliance
• Czech: pařák — cooking appliance
• Finnish: painekattila — cooking appliance
• Finnish: höyrykeitin — cooking appliance
• French: marmite à vapeur — cooking appliance
• French: cuit-vapeur — cooking appliance
• German: Dampfkochtopf — cooking appliance
• German: Dampftopf — cooking appliance
• Greek: κατσαρόλα ατμού (katsaróla atmoú) — cooking appliance
• Hungarian: pároló — cooking appliance
• Hungarian: gőzölő — cooking appliance
• Japanese: 蒸し器 (mushiki) — cooking appliance
• Kamba: stima — cooking appliance
• Kazakh: буқазан (buqazan) — cooking appliance
• Kazakh: қасқан (qasqan) — cooking appliance
• Kikuyu: stima — cooking appliance
• Kis: stima — cooking appliance
• Luhya: estima — cooking appliance
• Luo: stima — cooking appliance
• Malay: pengukus — cooking appliance
• Meru: stima — cooking appliance
• Mongolian: жигнүүр (žignüür) — cooking appliance
• Persian: بخارپز (boxârpaz) — cooking appliance
• Polish: parowar — cooking appliance
• Portuguese: panela a vapor — cooking appliance
• Russian: парова́рка (parovárka) — cooking appliance
• Spanish: vaporera — cooking appliance
• Spanish: olla vaporera — cooking appliance
• Swahili: stima — cooking appliance
• Swedish: ångkokare — cooking appliance
• Thai: ซึ้ง (sʉ́ng) — cooking appliance
• Thai: ถึง (tʉ̌ng) — cooking appliance
• Thai: ลังถึง (lang-tʉ̌ng) — cooking appliance
• Czech: lokomobila — traction engine, locomobile
• Finnish: lokomobiili — traction engine, locomobile
• Finnish: höyrytraktori — traction engine, locomobile
• Hungarian: lokomobil — traction engine, locomobile
• Māori: tima — traction engine, locomobile
• Polish: silnik trakcyjny — traction engine, locomobile
• Portuguese: locomotiva a vapor — traction engine, locomobile
• Portuguese: maria-fumaça — traction engine, locomobile
• Russian: локомоби́ль (lokomobílʹ) — traction engine, locomobile
• Arabic: بَاخِرَة (bāḵira) — steamboat or steamship
• Arabic: سَفِينَة بُخَارِيَّة — steamboat or steamship
• Basque: bapore — steamboat or steamship
• Bulgarian: параход (parahod) — steamboat or steamship
• Chinese Mandarin: 汽船 (qìchuán) — steamboat or steamship
• Chinese Mandarin: 輪船 /轮船 (lúnchuán) — steamboat or steamship
• Czech: parník — steamboat or steamship
• Danish: dampskib — steamboat or steamship
• Dutch: stoomboot — steamboat or steamship
• Esperanto: vaporŝipo — steamboat or steamship
• Finnish: höyrylaiva — steamboat or steamship
• Finnish: höyryalus — steamboat or steamship
• French: bateau à vapeur — steamboat or steamship
• German: Dampfer — steamboat or steamship
• German: Dampfschiff — steamboat or steamship
• Greek: ατμόπλοιο (atmóploio) — steamboat or steamship
• Hindi: स्टीमर (sṭīmar) — steamboat or steamship
• Hungarian: gőzhajó — steamboat or steamship
• Hungarian: gőzös — steamboat or steamship
• Indonesian: kapal uap — steamboat or steamship
• Italian: nave a vapore — steamboat or steamship
• Italian: vaporetto — steamboat or steamship
• Italian: battello a vapore — steamboat or steamship
• Japanese: 蒸気船 (jōkisen) — steamboat or steamship
• Low German: Damper — steamboat or steamship
• Macedonian: параброд (parabrod) — steamboat or steamship
• Māori: tima — steamboat or steamship
• Norman: stînmeux — steamboat or steamship
• Norwegian Bokmål: dampskip — steamboat or steamship
• Norwegian Bokmål: damper — steamboat or steamship
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dampskip — steamboat or steamship
• Polish: parowiec — steamboat or steamship
• Polish: parostatek — steamboat or steamship
• Portuguese: navio/embarcação/barco a vapor — steamboat or steamship
• Portuguese: vapor — steamboat or steamship
• Russian: парохо́д (paroxód) — steamboat or steamship
• Serbo-Croatian: parobrod — steamboat or steamship
• Serbo-Croatian: пароброд — steamboat or steamship
• Spanish: barco de vapor — steamboat or steamship
• Swahili: stima — steamboat or steamship
• Swedish: ångfartyg — steamboat or steamship
• Swedish: ångare — steamboat or steamship
• Ukrainian: пароплав (paroplav) — steamboat or steamship
• Welsh: agerlong — steamboat or steamship
• Polish: rabuś — member of a youth gang who engages in steaming (robbing and escaping in a large group)