Cockatrice vs Tiger - What's the difference?
cockatrice | tiger |
A legendary creature about the size and shape of a dragon or wyvern, but in appearance resembling a giant rooster, with some lizard-like characteristics.
* (rfdate) , The Spell of Egypt
Mistress, harlot
Panthera tigris , a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
# A male tiger.
A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XVII, ''The Beginnings
A leopard.
* 1907 , Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld , Longmans 1976 ed., ISBN 0582161231, page 251:
(US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
* 2010 , Jeff Wilser, The Maxims of Manhood
(figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
* Shakespeare
(US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.
A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between cockatrice and tiger
is that cockatrice is a legendary creature about the size and shape of a dragon or wyvern, but in appearance resembling a giant rooster, with some lizard-like characteristics while tiger is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc.As a proper noun tiger is
a town in georgia.cockatrice
English
(wikipedia cockatrice)Noun
(en noun)- “Peace reigns in happy Luxor. The lion lies down with the lamb, and the child, if it will, may harmlessly put its hand into the cockatrice’s den”
References
* For meaning "mistress": 1949', John Dover Wilson (compiler), ' Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose , Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and NotesSee also
* basilisktiger
English
(wikipedia tiger)Alternative forms
* tigre (obsolete) * tyger (dated)Noun
(en noun)- (Dickens)
- The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger , thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.
- Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.
- Don't Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.
- As for heinous tiger , Tamora.
- three cheers and a tiger