Croker vs Choker - What's the difference?
croker | choker |
(Ireland) (Croke Park), the largest stadium of Ireland, home of the Gaelic games.
(senseid)A piece of jewelry or ornamental fabric, worn as a necklace, tight to the throat.
* 2010 , Alice Fisher, The Observer , 24 Oct 2010:
One who, or that which, chokes or strangles.
One who operates the choke of an engine during ignition.
(slang) Any disappointing or upsetting circumstance.
One who performs badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when winning.
As nouns the difference between croker and choker
is that croker is a cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron while choker is (jewelry or accessory)A piece of jewelry or ornamental fabric, worn as a necklace, tight to the throat.As a proper noun Croker
is Croke Park, the largest stadium of Ireland, home of the Gaelic games.croker
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)choker
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(en noun)- She appears on the 90th anniversary issue of French Vogue wearing nothing but a mask, gloves and a choker – everything but her now iconic gap-toothed pout and impressive cleavage is obscured.
- I lost £100 on the horses today — what a choker!