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Comforter vs Kiverlid - What's the difference?

comforter | kiverlid |

As nouns the difference between comforter and kiverlid

is that comforter is a person who comforts someone who is suffering while kiverlid is coverlet or comforter, generally appearing as a colloquial pronunciation of coverlid.

comforter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who comforts someone who is suffering.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Let no comforter delight mine ear / But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
  • (US) A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt.
  • (old fashioned, mostly UK) A woollen scarf for winter.
  • * Popular Science Monthly
  • The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight.
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  • (UK, NZ, AU) A pacifier.
  • Synonyms

    * (person who comforts) consoler * (padded bed cover) duvet, (continental) quilt

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    kiverlid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • coverlet or comforter, generally appearing as a colloquial pronunciation of coverlid
  • carpet or rug
  • Quotations

    *1824 , , Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since , Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke and Sons, page 110 ::"I ha'nt been used to seein' kiverlids spread on the floor to walk on. We are glad to get 'em to kiver us up with a nights." *1830 , Silas Pinckney Holbrook, Sketches, By a Traveller , Boston: Carter and Hendee, page 249[http://books.google.com/books?id=8eoNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA249] ::Did I tell you how they sleep in Japan? Even as you and I bivouacked near the White Mountains; on the floor. A coverlid, (or as I heard a senator call it, a kiverlid ) stuffed like one of our comforters , is spread upon the plank, and a billet of wood, with a place cut for the head, stands substitute for a pillow.... *1895 , , The Heart of Old Hickory , Boston: Estes and Lauriat, page 26 ::An' his piller's all ruffled up, an' the kiverlid all white ez snow. *1913 , Margaret Warner Morley, The Carolina Mountains , Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., page 172[http://books.google.com/books?id=9AFDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA172] ::"I've made a kiverlid for each of my daughters but the least one, and I ain't made her nar'," says a woman....