drawer
pronunciation
How to pronounce drawer in British English:
UK [drɔː(r)]
How to pronounce drawer in American English:
US [drɔːr]
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- Noun:
- a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out
- the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else
- an artist skilled at drawing
Word Origin
- drawer
- drawer: [16] A drawer is literally something that is ‘drawn’ or ‘pulled’ out. The coinage was perhaps based on French tiroir ‘drawer’, which was similarly derived from the verb tirer ‘pull’. The same basic notion underlies the formation of drawers [16], a superannuated term for ‘knickers’, which were originally ‘garment pulled on’.
- drawer (n.)
- mid-14c., agent noun from draw (v.). Attested from 1570s in sense of a box that can be "drawn" out of a cabinet.
Example
- 1. You know he had it all in his drawer .
- 2. The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell of powder .
- 3. Each drawer has its own foldable legs .
- 4. Eg. this drawer sticks badly .
- 5. She said they was in the top drawer in this cupboard .