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Honeybadger vs Otter - What's the difference?

honeybadger | otter |

As a noun honeybadger

is .

As a proper noun otter is

a river whose source in the blackdown hills, somerset, and which flows into lyme bay in english channel.

honeybadger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * 1984 , Gus Adendorff, Hilary Rennie, Wild Company , page 51,
  • The Africans have often mentioned to me that a honeybadger (shidzidzi ) when cornered, will stand his ground against any living thing and give a good account of himself into the bargain.
  • * 1990 , Mike Nicol, The Powers That Be , page 58,
  • ‘Don?t any of you come sneaking around or you?ll feel the size of my fist and a length of sjambok across your bums, ja,’ he shouted, shaking fist and whip; then charged down the boards with the look of an angry honeybadger so that the fisherfolk scattered like gulls.
  • * 2006 , , Murder, HE Wrote: A Successful Writer?s Life , page 150,
  • There were two major projects I was expected to throw myself into with the zeal of a cornered honeybadger .

    otter

    English

    (wikipedia otter)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More etymology under English water.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal, member of the family Mustelidae , which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers, and others.
  • (gay slang) A hairy man with a slender physique, in contrast with a bear, who is more broadly set
  • Derived terms
    * otterless * otterish * otterlike * ottery * sea otter

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Annatto.
  • (Webster 1913)

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