Fute vs Ute - What's the difference?
fute | ute |
(Australia, New Zealand) A small vehicle based on the same platform as a family car but with a unibody construction and a built-in open tray area for carrying goods; similar but not identical to a pick-up truck.
* 2007 , Sheryl Persson, The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia , Exisle Publishing, Australia,
* 2008 , Penelope Adams, Why Women Are Stupid , Lulu,
* 2009 , Damian Veltri, Bandt, Louis (Lewis) Thornett (1910-1987)'', entry in Dianne Lingmore, Darryl Bennet (editors), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 17 1981-1990: A-K,
As an adjective fute
is wily, cunning, crafty.As a proper noun ute is
a native american people of utah, colorado and new mexico.As a noun ute is
a member of this people.ute
English
Noun
(en noun)page 40,
- The Reverend John Flynn, a man of simple tastes, was always recognisable in the outback, dressed in a suit, driving an old ute and puffing on a pipe.
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- Still, given the choice between being stuck behind a ute' in tropical scenery and spending four to five hours driving through stretches of semi-desert, I?d rather have the ' ute -plus-heart-attack.
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- A sample body was made in 1933 and the first utilities, or ‘utes'’, rolled off the production line next year. Dubbed ‘the Kangaroo Chaser’ by Henry Ford when Bandt displayed two examples in Detroit, United States of America, in 1935, the ' ute was quickly recognised as the ideal farmers? vehicle.
