Guana vs Gunna - What's the difference?
guana | gunna |
(US) A contraction of iguana (the lizard) made in British colonial America. (Reference: The Dinkum Dictionary : The Origins of Australian Words , Susan Butler, Text Publishing, 2001, ISBN 187648585X.)
(rare)
* 1915, George Bronson-Howard, God’s Man ,
* , quoted in Neal R. Peirce, The Mountain States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Eight Rocky Mountain States ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=HUCPzNYyUvwC] W. W. Norton & Company (1972), ISBN 0393052559, page 134,
* 2007, Mallory Dunn, The Letters ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=IfA9S-DMTlYC] Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 1-4257-5943-2, page 14,
As a noun guana
is (us) a contraction of iguana (the lizard) made in british colonial america (reference: the dinkum dictionary : the origins of australian words , susan butler, text publishing, 2001, isbn 187648585x).As a proper noun gunna is
.guana
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* goannagunna
English
Contraction
(head)The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [http://books.google.com/books?id=e_sdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA132&dq=gunna page 132,
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