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Hitler vs Barney - What's the difference?

hitler | barney |

As nouns the difference between hitler and barney

is that hitler is (derogatory) an unnecessarily dictatorial person while barney is (uk|australia|cockney rhyming slang) a noisy argument or barney can be (united states|pejorative slang) an insult directed at a police officer, usually by someone who believes the officer to be inferior or overzealous.

As a proper noun hitler

is a surname of austrian origin.

As a verb barney is

(uk|australia|cockney rhyming slang) to argue, to quarrel.

hitler

English

(Adolf Hitler)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A surname of Austrian origin.
  • , dictator of Germany between 1933 and 1945.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1964, author=David Hugh Freeman, title=A Philosophical Study of Religion
  • , passage=The question makes no sense, unless the questioner is satisfied with such answers as: Death is evil, pain is evil, Hitler is evil. citation
  • * {{quote-book, year=1977, title=Providence and Evil, author=Peter Thomas Geach
  • , passage=Similarly, the description we give of God’s knowledge concerning Hitler' has to be different after '''Hitler'''’s death; it is manifest that there has been a change on ' Hitler ’s side, and that this, in view of the logic of omniscience, makes a difference to what we can truly say about God’s knowledge; ... citation
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  • * {{quote-book, year=2007, title=The God Delusion, author=Richard Dawkins
  • , passage=People do evil things (Hitler , Stalin, Saddam Hussein). citation

    Derived terms

    * Hitlerian * Hitlerish * Hitlerism * Hitlerite

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (derogatory) An unnecessarily dictatorial person.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1986, author=William Borman, title=Gandhi and Non-Violence
  • , passage=How does he support his position against the prima facie case in favor of the strongly counterintuitive claim that non-violence would necessarily defeat a Hitler ?}}

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    barney

    Translingual

    Proper noun

    (mul-proper noun)
  • A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist E.E. Barney (fl. 1877-79).