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Boomer vs Karen - What's the difference?

boomer | karen |

As nouns the difference between boomer and karen

is that boomer is an adult male kangaroo while karen is .

boomer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An adult male kangaroo.
  • A baby boomer.
  • A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
  • (US, nautical, military, slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.
  • * 1990 , The Hunt For Red October :
    • Distant contact, probably submerged. It's a wild guess, but I'd say we hit a boomer coming out of the barn. Could be a missile boat out of Polijarny.
  • (UK) The bittern.

    • Derived terms

    * baby boomer * echo boomer * grandboomer

    karen

    English

    (wikipedia Karen)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) Karen.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • . First taken up as a given name in the U.S.A., and popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s.
  • * 1878 , Drift-Weed , Houghton, Osgood,1878, page 28 ("Karen"):
    • Left you a lover in that far land, / O Karen sad, that you pine so long! / Would I could unravel and understand / That sorrowful, sweet Norwegian song!
  • * 1918 Cecily Ullman Sidgwick, Karen , W.Collins, 1918, page 12:
    • I was not called Karen after Hans Andersen's dancing girl, but after a Danish friend of my mother's who married an Englishman and was my godmother. So much for our family affairs.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A group of languages of Myanmar and Thailand.

    • External links

    Ethnologue report on the Karen languages

    Etymology 3

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .

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