Crone vs Tomcat - What's the difference?
crone | tomcat |
(obsolete) An old woman.
* Dryden
An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
(obsolete) An old ewe.
(obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
* Beaconsfield
* Washington Irving
To prowl for sexual gratification.
*1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 539:
*:He would not go roaming the streets tom-catting like Mr Schick.
As nouns the difference between crone and tomcat
is that crone is (wicca) one of the triune goddesses of the lady in wicca alongside the mother and maiden and representing an old woman while tomcat is a tom, a male cat.As a verb tomcat is
to prowl for sexual gratification.crone
English
Noun
(en noun)- But still the crone was constant to her note.
- (Tusser)
- A few old battered crones of office.
- The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel which his master had given him.
