Carl vs Donna - What's the difference?
carl | donna |
A rude, rustic man; a churl.
* 1974', In Lent noblemen and '''carls alike had got into the traces and pulled the carts of stone themselves. — Guy Davenport, ''Tatlin!
(obsolete) To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly.
*, New York 2001, p.210:
*:full of ache, sorrow, and grief, children again, dizzards, they carle many times as they sit, and talk to themselves, they are angry, waspish, displeased with everything […].
A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy.
* 1837 , Thomas Tod Stoddart, Angling reminiscences (page 65)
* 2005 , Burton D. Fisher, Mozart's Don Giovanni , page 22
As nouns the difference between carl and donna
is that carl is a student at (carleton college), minnesota while donna is .As a proper noun carl
is .carl
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) carl, from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Origin uncertain.Alternative forms
* carleVerb
(en verb)Anagrams
* ----donna
English
Noun
(en noun)- What are the songs of Italy, sung as they are by the donnas of the scenic board, but a replication of squalls and quavers, infinitely more annoying than the gibberish of crones
- In Don Giovanni's three female characters, the diverse spectrum of womanhood is rendered complete: the great opera seria character of the avenging Donna' Anna, the sentimental and spurned ' Donna Elvira, and the crafty but sympathetic peasant girl Zerlina.