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Wallaby vs Joey - What's the difference?

wallaby | joey |

As nouns the difference between wallaby and joey

is that wallaby is any of several species of marsupial; usually smaller and stockier than kangaroos while joey is the immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc.

As a proper noun Joey is

a diminutive of the male given name Joe or Joseph.

wallaby

English

(wikipedia wallaby)

Noun

(wallabies)
  • Any of several species of marsupial; usually smaller and stockier than kangaroos

    • Derived terms

    * agile wallaby * banded hare-wallaby * black-striped wallaby * hare-wallaby * nail-tail wallaby * Parma wallaby * pretty-faced wallaby * red-necked wallaby * rock wallaby/rock-wallaby * scrub wallaby * swamp wallaby * tammar wallaby * toolache wallaby * Wallabia * western brush wallaby

    See also

    * joey * kangaroo * marsupial * boomer * Wallabies ----

    joey

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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)
    • Among the kangaroo words that yield the most joviality and joy are those that conceal multiple joeys .
  • * 2005 , Anu Garg, Another Word a Day (page 132)
    • Sometimes a kangaroo word has more than one joey .

    References

    * (EtymOnLine) English terms with unknown etymologies