Characteristic vs Woggish - What's the difference?
characteristic | woggish |
Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
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, title= a distinguishable feature of a person or thing
(mathematics) the integer part of a logarithm
(nautical) the distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc)
(algebra, field theory) The minimum number of times that the unit of a field must be added unto itself in order to yield that field's zero, or, if that minimum natural number does not exist, then (the integer) zero.
(slang, pejorative, ethnic slur) Exhibiting qualities or behaviour considered characteristic of a wog
* 1960 Manohar Malgonkar, Distant drum, Asia Pub. House, p60
* 1987 Anna Gibbs & Alison Tilson, Frictions, an anthology of fiction by women, Spinifex Press, p6
* 2006 Irfan Agha, Uncle Cuckoo, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu, p104
As adjectives the difference between characteristic and woggish
is that characteristic is being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing while woggish is (slang|pejorative|ethnic slur) exhibiting qualities or behaviour considered characteristic of a wog.As a noun characteristic
is a distinguishable feature of a person or thing.characteristic
English
(wikipedia characteristic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
Synonyms
* distinctive * exclusive * idiosyncratic * indicative * representative * signature * specific * typicalAntonyms
* uncharacteristic * untypicalDerived terms
* characteristic function * characteristicnessNoun
(en noun)- A field's characteristic, if non-zero, must be a prime number.
Synonyms
* attribute * idiosyncrasy * mannerism * quality * tendency * trademark * trait * See alsoDerived terms
* defining characteristicSee also
* mantissaExternal links
* *woggish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I should have thought that we would have stopped all such woggish activities by now. I mean dancing and things.
- They were too unrestrainedly ethnic, too woggish (from another point of view), not middle-class enough for my father [...]
- Thank God at least you don't speak with a woggish accent.