Darb vs Garb - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between darb and garb

is that darb is (australia|slang) a cigarette while garb is fashion, style of dressing oneself up or garb can be (heraldiccharge) a wheat sheaf.

As a verb garb is

to dress in garb.

darb

English

Noun

(en noun)

(Australia, slang) A cigarette.

(slang) Something beautiful, a charm, a peach.

* 1931 , Courtney Ryley Cooper, Circus Day , 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.”

* 1934 , Story , Volume 4, page 35,

‘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.’

* 1941 , Amazing Stories , Ziff-Davis, Volume 15, Issues 1-6, page 21,

You can figure for yourself what a darb of a setup that was for us seven hundred professional killers!

Synonyms

* (cigarette) death stick, durrie

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garb

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) and (etyl) gear).

Noun

(en noun)

Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.

A type of dress or clothing.

*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

(lb) A guise, external appearance.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb , he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.

Verb

(en verb)

To dress in garb.

Etymology 2

(etyl) gerbe; akin to German Garbe

Noun

(en noun)

(heraldiccharge) A wheat sheaf.

A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.

* 1957 , H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , page 118.

Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.''

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