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designer|dɪˈzaɪnə(r)|
Also 7 designor.
[f. design v. + -er1.]
One who designs.
1. One who originates a plan or plans.
1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals ii. ii. 151 Thoughtful and cogitative, a great designor. 1736Butler Anal. ii. Concl. Wks. 1874 I. 307 Ten thousand thousand instances of design cannot but prove a designer. 1863J. G. Murphy Comm. Gen. i. 2 The Great Designer.
2. In bad sense: One who cherishes evil designs or is actuated by selfish purposes; a plotter, schemer, intriguer.
1649Prynne Demurrer 83 The greatest designers, plotters and lifters up of themselves against the interest of Christ. a1704T. Brown Praise of Wealth Wks. 1730 I. 84 The cunning designer gets into the princes favour. 1726in H. Campbell Love-lett. Mary Q. Scots (1824) 20 Where is one faithful friend to be chosen out among a thousand base designers?
3. a. One who makes an artistic design or plan of construction; a draughtsman; spec. one whose business is to invent or prepare designs or patterns for the manufacturer or constructor.
1662Evelyn Chalcogr. 147 Where the Workman is not an accomplished Designer. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 190 ⁋10 Sculptors, painters, and designers. 1891Leeds Mercury 21 May 5/1 The designers of these tank vessels. 1892Labour Commission Gloss. No. 9 Designer, the architect who designs the enrichment for the ‘modeller’ in the plastering trade. Mod. A designer in a textile factory.
b. Freq. used attrib. in fashion, etc., to denote goods bearing the name or label of a famous designer, with the implication that they are expensive or prestigious. Also transf. and fig. orig. U.S.
1966N.Y. Times 12 Feb. 31/7 (heading) Designer scarves join name-dropping game. 1973E. Jong Fear of Flying (1974) ii. 37 She was all gotten up in designer clothes. 1977Washington Post 8 Jan. c1/6 Mrs. Carter has been known to have a sharp eye for price tags, rejecting anything she feels inflated by designer labels. 1978Ibid. 30 Dec. c2/1 At the moment, designer jeans are such big business that Bloomingdale's has created a department called ‘Pure Jeanius’. 1979United States 1980/81 (Penguin Travel Guides) 321 For good buys on top-brand and designer sheets and pillowcases, New York is definitely the place. 1984Times 4 Sept. 12/1 Small wonder Perrier is called Designer Water. My local wine bar has the cheek to charge 70p a glass. 1985S. Lowry Young Fogey Handbk. viii. 69 He loves seafood..and detests designer dishes. 1985Mail on Sunday (Colour Suppl.) 3 Mar. 53/1 After all, this is designer-label land where the window boxes have electronic water sprinklers and the cat's manicurist is on a retainer.
c. Special Comb. designer drug orig. U.S., a drug synthesized to mimic a legally restricted or prohibited drug without itself being subject to such restriction.
1983Sacramento Union 17 Dec. e8/7 Thirty-four people have died in the last four years after using ‘designer drugs’, heroin look-alikes concocted in underground laboratories and hitting the streets one step ahead of government regulations. 1985Sunday Times 24 Mar. 12/1 A still-growing line of what are known as ‘designer drugs’, new compounds that are synthetic ‘analogues’ of existing illegal mind-altering substances. 1985Times 3 Dec. 5/8 Designer drugs were an added threat to the rising menace of heroin and cocaine addiction. 1986Washington Post 2 June b4/1 The accidental discovery a few years ago of a ‘designer drug’ — called MPTP — that produced Parkinson's symptoms in addicts.
▸ designer baby n. (a) a baby wearing or having designer clothes or accessories; (b) a baby whose genetic make-up has been artificially selected by genetic engineering combined with in vitro fertilization to ensure the presence or absence of particular genes or characteristics.
1982Forbes 22 Nov. 208/2 The *designer baby market is hot. These days you can walk into a kids' store and find pint-size versions of Christian Dior pajamas. 1985N.Y. Times 6 Aug. c17/4 Haven't we been told that God determines gender? Isn't choosing sex in advance like ordering a designer baby? 1994Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 19 Dec. 11 There's also an exclusive range of wooden Swiss rattles for the designer baby. 2002Chicago Tribune 28 Dec. i. 8/4 Some ethicists believe cloning is wrong in principle, citing the possibility it will lead to an industry of designer babies or hamper a child's ability to form a unique identity.
▸ designer stubble n. the short, bristly growth on a man's unshaven face, esp. when purposely cultivated for a supposedly rugged and masculine appearance or to suggest a fashionably casual dishevelment.
1986Campaign 29 Aug. 8/1 The beard trimmer, which allows the user to wear a fashionable ‘*designer stubble’ look without having to shave and grow it every three days, is already popular in the US. 1992G. Adair Post-modernist always rings Twice 94 Nothing could more neatly puncture the modish absurdity of George Michael's designer stubble than the cactussy bristles of Desperate Dan's off-the-peg chin. 1996U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 13 May 42 Last week he strode into the White House, designer stubble trimmed neatly, checkered kaffiyeh draped carefully—a renegade reinvented. 2001Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 1 Sept. Neither Robbie Fowler nor Andy Cole received quite such a glowing reference from Boy Wonder, resplendent in designer stubble. |