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Fijian vs Tailback - What's the difference?

fijian | tailback |

As nouns the difference between fijian and tailback

is that fijian is a person from Fiji or of Fijian descent while tailback is a line of motor vehicles caught up in traffic congestion; a traffic jam.

As an adjective Fijian

is pertaining to Fiji, or its people or language.

As a proper noun Fijian

is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.

fijian

English

(Fijian language)

Alternative forms

(obsolete spellings) Feejeean, Fejeean

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to Fiji, or its people or language.
  • *
  • she wore her brown hair flatly braided and coiled behind so as to expose the outline of her head in a daring manner at a time when public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows, never surpassed by any great race except the Feejeean .

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • an spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.
  • tailback

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A line of motor vehicles caught up in traffic congestion; a traffic jam
  • * 2013 , Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/gibraltar-falklands-deny-logic-history]
  • The idea of a British warship supposedly menacing Spain is ludicrous. Is it meant to bomb Cadiz? Will its guns lift a rush-hour tailback in a colony that most Britons regard as awash with tax dodgers, drug dealers and right-wing whingers? The Gibraltarians have rights, but why British taxpayers should send warships to enforce them, even if just "on exercise", is a mystery.