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Carnage vs Carn - What's the difference?

carnage | carn |

As a noun carnage

is death and destruction.

As an interjection carn is

come on.

carnage

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Death and destruction.
  • What remains after a massacre, e.g. the corpses or gore.
  • Any chaotic situation.
  • * 2014 , Simon Spence, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas
    • The lads had recently returned from a wild summer on the party island of Ibiza, an increasingly popular hotspot for working-class British youth. But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos.

    Synonyms

    * bloodbath * massacre

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    carn

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (Australia, informal) Come on.
  • (Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (especially football) team.
  • * 1956' September 10, "'''Carn the Magpies!", '' The Argus
  • * 2001 March 26, "Rabbitohs win hearts and minds of the disaffected", The Sydney Morning Herald
    • Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes.
  • * 2004 February 12, "Keeping sport local on our ABC", The Age
    • Surely there is someone in ABC Television management who has read Bruce Dawe's evocative poem Life Cycle: "When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots/having already begun a lifetime's barracking/Carn', they cry, ' carn … feebly at first."
  • * 2011' October 11, "'''Carn the Four'n Twenty, says Preston", '' Herald Sun

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