Joey vs Tan - What's the difference?
joey | tan |
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)
A symbol of the trigonometric function tangent.
As nouns the difference between joey and tan
is that joey is the immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc while tan is a yellowish-brown colour.As proper nouns the difference between joey and tan
is that joey is a diminutive of the male given name Joe or Joseph while Tan is an English surname derived from the transliteration of various Asian surnames, particularly originating from China and Vietnam.As an adjective tan is
of a yellowish-brown.As a verb tan is
to change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.As a numeral tan is
the second cardinal number two, formerly used in Celtic areas, especially Cumbria and parts of Yorkshire, for counting sheep, and stitches in knitting.See Wikipedia article on Yan Tan TetheraAs an initialism TAN is
Total Acid Number, the measure of a lubricant's or crude oil's acidity.joey
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 .