Darb vs Darby - What's the difference?
darb | darby |
(Australia, slang) A cigarette.
(slang) Something beautiful, a charm, a peach.
* 1931 , Courtney Ryley Cooper, Circus Day ,
* 1934 , Story , Volume 4,
* 1941 , Amazing Stories , Ziff-Davis, Volume 15, Issues 1-6,
A specialized tool used to finish concrete slabs. A stiff, wooden or metal wedge or triangle, it is used to smooth and level the surface of wet concrete.
As a noun darb
is (australia|slang) a cigarette.As a proper noun darby is
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English
Noun
(en noun)page 263,
- “Boss,” he exclaimed, “it's a darb .”
- “It's more than that,” I cut in, “it?s a wonder. It?s a masterpiece.”
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- ‘My new bird is a darb ,’ he says, ‘only four months old and he?s got a roll and a chop the size of your arm. Never heard a young bird sing like that.’
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- You can figure for yourself what a darb of a setup that was for us seven hundred professional killers!