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What is the difference between feller and fella?

feller | fella |

Fella is a alternative form of feller.



As nouns the difference between feller and fella

is that feller is a person who fells trees; a lumberjack while fella is eye dialect of lang=en.

As an adjective feller

is comparative of fell.

feller

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who fells trees; a lumberjack
  • A machine for felling trees.
  • An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

    • Etymology 2

    Variant of fellow'' which reflects the reduction of the last vowel to a schwa and its conflation with the endings ''-er''/''-ar . Dictionary.com

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
    • , title=, chapter=1 , passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
    Derived terms
    * blackfeller * whitefeller

    See also

    * fellow, fellar, fella, fellah

    References

    Etymology 3

    The adjective fell'' + ''-er .

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (archaic) (fell)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    fella

    English

    Alternative forms

    * * feller

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) (used to address a male)
  • *
    • Am I right, fellas ?

    Descendants

    *Bislama: -fala, -pela *Pijin: -fala *Tok Pisin: -pela, -pla