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Dam vs Madder - What's the difference?

dam | madder |

As adjectives the difference between dam and madder

is that dam is being a pervert while madder is of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye or madder can be (mad).

As a noun madder is

a herbaceous plant, , native to asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye obtained from the root or madder can be .

dam

Translingual

Symbol

(head)
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    madder

    English

    (wikipedia madder)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) , from Germanic, perhaps from an Indo-European base meaning "blue." Cognate with (etyl) madra.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A herbaceous plant, , native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye obtained from the root.
  • The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
  • A dye made from the plant.
  • A deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

    • Synonyms

    * (Rubia tinctorum) common madder, dyer's madder
    Derived terms
    * (field madder) * Indian madder * madder yellow * rose madder * wild madder

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

    • Related terms

    * alizarin

    See also

    * bedstraw * bluets * genipap *

    Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (mad)

    • Etymology 3

    From mead

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * c.1720 Jonathan Swift (translation from the Irish) " O'Rourke's Feast":
    • Usequebaugh to our feast - In pails was brought up,
    A hundred at least, - And the madder our cup,
    O there is the sport!

    References

    * Tenison, Thomas Joseph (1860) "On Methers and Other Ancient Drinking Vessels" Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society Vol.3NS No.1 p.54

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