Joey vs Joes - What's the difference?
joey | joes |
The immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc.
The shorter word whose letters can be found within a kangaroo word.
* 1998 , Richard Lederer, Dave Morice, The Word Circus (page 129)
* 2005 , Anu Garg, Another Word a Day (page 132)
As a proper noun joey
is a diminutive of the male given name joe or joseph.As a noun joes is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Among the kangaroo words that yield the most joviality and joy are those that conceal multiple joeys .
- Sometimes a kangaroo word has more than one joey .