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Jake vs Sean - What's the difference?

jake | sean |

As nouns the difference between jake and sean

is that jake is collar while sean is sign, omen.

As an interjection jake

is come.

As a verb sean is

to mark with a sign, to bless or sean can be to deny:.

jake

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (slang) Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.
  • *1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 126:
  • *:‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake .’

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) A juvenile male turkey.
  • * 1998 , Jerome B Robinson, In the Turkey Woods
    • The spring turkey woods are occupied by roaming bands of jakes — year-old males with strong mating urges but inferior body size.

    sean

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1874 , Edmund William Hunt Holdsworth, Deep-sea fishing and fishing boats (page 157)
    • Seaning is conducted on a large scale at St. Ives for the capture of pilchards
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