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Cabman vs Cayman - What's the difference?

cabman | cayman |

As nouns the difference between cabman and cayman

is that cabman is the driver of a hackney cab while cayman is .

cabman

English

Noun

(cabmen)
  • The driver of a hackney cab.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 22
    • At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman , who touched his hat and drove away.
  • The driver of a taxi.

    • Synonyms

    * cabdriver

    cayman

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1862 , The Quiver , Volumes 1-6, page 451,
    • We were about to follow this advice, when another man, more rash than his comrades, said, 'I'm not afraid of caymans ,' and spurred his horse into the stream.
  • * 1996 , Dale Alan Olsen (editor), Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rain Forest , page 326,
    • Surely, when this animal comes, it is to eat us. Thus, we have to sing this hoa. This is how I learned this hoa for caymans'. One sings this so he won't be eaten by the ' caymans .
  • * 2002 , Harry S. Pariser, Explore Puerto Rico , page 157,
    • Laguna Tortuguero' has some 2,000 ''caimanes'' (' caymans ), a type of alligator indigenous to Central and S America.