Fifer vs Lifer - What's the difference?
fifer | lifer |
A prisoner sentenced to life in prison.
A prisoner sentenced to transportation for life.
* Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
A person who makes a career in the military.
A bird species seen for the first time by a birder who is keeping a list of all the birds he or she has ever seen.
* 2013 , Sue Taylor, Best 100 Birdwatching Sites in Australia
As a proper noun fifer
is a person who hails from the county of fife in scotland.As a noun lifer is
a prisoner sentenced to life in prison.lifer
English
Noun
(en noun)- They know what a clever lad he is; he'll be a lifer . They'll make the Artful nothing less than a lifer.
- I saw six species of honeyeaters new to me and went home with 16 lifers and some bad sandfly bites.