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Canada vs Snowbilly - What's the difference?

canada | snowbilly |

As nouns the difference between canada and snowbilly

is that canada is a blow with a cane while snowbilly is (derogatory|slang) a person from rural northern canada or alaska.

canada

English

(wikipedia Canada)

Proper noun

(s)
  • A country in North America; official name: Canada .
  • (historical) Lower Canada (also Canada East) or Upper Canada (Canada West), often “the Canadas.”

    • Synonyms

    * America's Hat (humorous) * Canuckistan (humorous or derogatory) * Dominion of Canada (historical) * Great White North (informal) * neighbor to the north (qualifier) * People's Republic of Canada (humorous or derogatory) * Soviet Canuckistan (humorous or derogatory)

    Derived terms

    * Atlantic Canada * blame Canada * Canada balsam * * Canada Day * Canada Dry * = bunchberry Cornus canadensis * Canada East = Lower Canada * Canada Games * Canada goose, Branta canadensis * Canada jay = grey jay * * * * Canada Pension Plan * and its fruit * * Erethizon dorsatum * * Canadarm * * Canada Savings Bond * Canada thistle, * Canada violet, * Canada West = Upper Canada * * Canadian * Canadiana * Canadianism * Canadianize * Canadianist * Canadien * Canadienne * Canajun * Central Canada = Central provinces * French Canada * Lower Canada * O Canada * Upper Canada

    Related terms

    * Canuck * Kanata

    References

    * * Jacques Cartier (1545), Relation originale de Jacques Cartier] , Paris: Tross [1863, p 48.

    See also

    * * * ----

    snowbilly

    English

    Noun

    (snowbillies)
  • (derogatory, slang) A person from rural northern Canada or Alaska
  • *{{quote-book, 1959, Ernest H. Groth, Official Proceedings of the National Ice Association, page=76 citation
    • , passage=The "damnyankees" can't agree with the Georgia Crackers, and they won't have any truck with the "snowbillies " or the Eskimos.}}
  • *{{quote-news, 1994, March 18, , Nielsen Is a Closet Comedian Come to Life, Lexington Herald-Leader, quotee= citation
    • , passage=I'm just a bowlegged snowbilly from Canada. }}
  • *{{quote-news, 2008, November 4, , Our Morning Roundup: Election Edition, Washington City Paper citation
    • , passage=Wonkette describes Sarah Palin as a “doomed loser snowbilly .” }}