Darb vs Drab - What's the difference?
darb | drab |
(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,
Dull, uninteresting, particularly of colour.
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A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab colour.
The colour of this fabric; a dun, dull grey, or or dull brownish yellow.
A wooden box, used in saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
(dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
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* 1956 , (John Creasey), Gideon's Week :
(dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
* 1957 , (Frank Swinnerton), The Woman from Sicily :
A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
(obsolete) To consort with prostitutes.
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As nouns the difference between darb and drab
is that darb is (australia|slang) a cigarette while drab is beadle, catchpole.darb
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!
Synonyms
* (cigarette) death stick, durrieAnagrams
* * * ----drab
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), meaning "color of undyed cloth", from (etyl) ).Xavier Delamarre, ''Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental , s.v. "drappo" (Paris: Errance, 2001).Adjective
(drabber)citation, page= , passage=In a drab first half, Ryan Shotton's drive was deflected on to a post and Jon Walters twice went close.}}
Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* (English Citations of "drab")Synonyms
* (fabric) (l)Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
Origin uncertain; probably compare Irish drabog, Gaelic .Noun
(en noun)- Old provincial society had [...] its brilliant young professional dandies who ended by living up an entry with a drab and six children for their establishment [...].
- The doss house emptied during the day; from ten o'clock until five or six in the evening, there was no one there except Mulliver, a drab who did some of the cleaning for him, and occasional visitors.
- Ineffable sarcasm underlined the word 'bride', suggesting that Mrs Mudge must be a drab who had married for respectability.
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