Darg vs Darb - What's the difference?
darg | darb |
(dialect)
* 1897 , Herbert George Wells, The Invisible Man ;
(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,
As nouns the difference between darg and darb
is that darg is a {{l/en|day}}’s {{l/en|work}}, the {{l/en|task}} of a day; also, a defined {{l/en|quantity}} or {{l/en|amount}} of work, or of the {{l/en|product}} of work, done in a certain {{l/en|time}} or at a certain {{l/en|rate}} of {{l/en|payment}}; a task while darb is a cigarette.darg
English
Etymology 1
First attested in late (etyl); a .Alternative forms
* * *Derived terms
* * * *References
* “Darg]” listed on page 33 of volume III (D–E), § i (D) of [1st ed., 1897 * “
darg]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989
Etymology 2
The in many American dialects.Noun
(en noun)Chapter III:
- Hall had stood gaping. "He wuz bit," said Hall. "I’d better go and see to en," and he trotted after the stranger. He met Mrs. Hall in the passage. "Carrier’s darg ," he said "bit en."
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.”
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.’
page 21,
- You can figure for yourself what a darb of a setup that was for us seven hundred professional killers!
