Joe vs Tiger - What's the difference?
joe | tiger |
A common nickname for Joseph, also used as a formal male given name.
* 1981 , Second Movement , Nebula Winners: Science Fiction Writers of America, Harper&Row, 1981, ISBN 0060148306, page 207
, Joanne or Josephine.
Panthera tigris , a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
# A male tiger.
A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XVII, ''The Beginnings
A leopard.
* 1907 , Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld , Longmans 1976 ed., ISBN 0582161231, page 251:
(US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
* 2010 , Jeff Wilser, The Maxims of Manhood
(figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
* Shakespeare
(US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.
A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between joe and tiger
is that joe is (informal) a male; a guy; a fellow or joe can be (chiefly|us|informal) coffee while tiger is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc.As a proper noun tiger is
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English
(wikipedia Joe)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "With a name like Joe'," '''Joe''' always said, "I had to open a bar and grill, just so I could put up a sign saying '' Joe' s Bar and Grill'."
Derived terms
* average Joe * Joe Average * Joe Blow * Joe College * Joe Schmoe * Joe SixpackSee also
* cup of joe * sloppy joe English diminutives of male given namestiger
English
(wikipedia tiger)Alternative forms
* tigre (obsolete) * tyger (dated)Noun
(en noun)- (Dickens)
- The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger , thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.
- Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.
- Don't Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.
- As for heinous tiger , Tamora.
- three cheers and a tiger