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Apprehensive vs Ner - What's the difference?

apprehensive | ner |

As an adjective apprehensive

is .

As a symbol ner is

the iso 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for niger.

apprehensive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
  • * 1719 ,
    • this convinced me that there was no going on shore for us in the night on that coast, and how to venture on shore in the day was another question too; for to have fallen into the hands of any of the savages had been as bad as to have fallen into the hands of the lions and tigers; at least we were equally apprehensive of the danger of it.
  • Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
  • * 1670 ,
    • More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.

    Derived terms

    * apprehensively

    ner

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (slang, childish) An interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of humiliation or inferiority for the person being addressed, often when disagreeing with a statement considered incorrect or irrelevant.
    • You're wrong, so ner!
    I don't care what you think, so ner!
    I've got more sweets than you. Ner ner ner ner ner!

    Derived terms

    : ner ner ner ner ner :: Emphatic form of ner'' — pronounced /n?? n?? n? n?? n??/ and sung or spoken with the rhythm: crotchet, dotted quaver, semiquaver, crotchet, crotchet. Spelling is not canonical; alternatives are "''ner ner na ner ner''" or "''ner ner ne ner ner ".

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