Otter vs Beaver - What's the difference?
otter | beaver |
Any aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal, member of the family Mustelidae , which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers, and others.
(gay slang) A hairy man with a slender physique, in contrast with a bear, who is more broadly set
An aquatic rodent of the genus Castor , having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
A hat, of various shape, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Prescott)
(coarse, slang) The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman.
The fur of the beaver.
Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
The lower face-guard of a helmet.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxvii:
*:With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.
*1819 , (Walter Scott), (Ivanhoe) :
*:Without alighting from his horse, the conqueror called for a bowl of wine, and opening the beaver , or lower part of his helmet, announced that he quaffed it, “To all true English hearts, and to the confusion of foreign tyrants.”
*1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), , Faber & Faber 1992, p.128:
*:As each one brings a little of himself to what he sees you brought the trappings of your historic preoccupations, so that Monsieur flattered you by presenting himself with beaver up like Hamlet's father's ghost!
As proper nouns the difference between otter and beaver
is that otter is a river whose source in the blackdown hills, somerset, and which flows into lyme bay in english channel while beaver is .otter
English
(wikipedia otter)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More etymology under English water.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* otterless * otterish * otterlike * ottery * sea otterEtymology 2
Anagrams
* ----beaver
English
(wikipedia beaver) (Castor)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bever, from (etyl) . Related to brown and bear.Noun
(en-noun)- a brown beaver slouched over his eyes