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Confederate vs Greyback - What's the difference?

confederate | greyback |

As nouns the difference between confederate and greyback

is that confederate is a member of a confederacy while greyback is a Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms).

As an adjective confederate

is of, relating to, or united in a confederacy.

As a verb confederate

is to combine into a confederacy.

confederate

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a member of a confederacy
  • an accomplice in a plot
  • * Macaulay
    • He found some of his confederates in gaol.
  • (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher (also known as a "stooge").

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
  • banded together; allied.
  • * Shakespeare
    • All the swords / In Italy, and her confederate arms, / Could not have made this peace.

    Quotations

    * , Youth's Antiphony, lines 11-12 *: Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng, *: Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To combine into a confederacy.
    • ----

    greyback

    English

    Alternative forms

    *grayback

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical, US, colloquial) A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms).
  • * 1871 , Mary Stephens Robinson, A household story of the American conflict
    • ...to resist the farther advance of the greybacks .
  • *1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2004, p. 739:
  • *:Sheridan managed to keep the graybacks at bay while he tore up the railroad, but he abandoned the plan to link up with Hunter, and the southerners soon repaired the railroad.
  • (dated) A louse.
  • * 1886 , Central Reporter: Cases, Courts of Last Resort
    • It is alleged by the defendant that there were scabs and greybacks in it, and that it did not come up to the quality of No. 1 slate as contracted for.
  • A local name for various grey birds.

    • Derived terms

    * greyback cane grub * greyback goose