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Kangaroo vs Monday - What's the difference?

kangaroo | monday |

As nouns the difference between kangaroo and monday

is that kangaroo is a member of the macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to australia while monday is the first day of the week in systems using the norm and second day of the week in many religious traditions it follows sunday and precedes tuesday.

As a verb kangaroo

is to practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.

As an adverb monday is

on monday.

kangaroo

English

(wikipedia kangaroo)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia.
  • * 1770 , (James Cook), Journal , 4 August 1770 [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8106]:
    • Besides the Animals which I have before mentioned, called by the Natives Kangooroo', or ' Kanguru […].
  • * 1814 , (Matthew Flinders), A Voyage to Terra Australis :
    • In the woods are the kanguroo , the emu or cassowary, paroquets, and a variety of small birds […].
  • (Canada, attributive) A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.

    • Synonyms

    * (Macropodidae) macropod, roo * (jacket) bunny hug, hoodie, kangaroo jacket

    Derived terms

    * antelope kangaroo, antilopine kangaroo * banded kangaroo * brush kangaroo * eastern grey kangaroo * forest kangaroo * giant kangaroo * great kangaroo * hare-kangaroo * kangaroo apple * kangaroo ball * kangaroo bar * kangaroo bear * kangaroo-beetle * kangaroo care * kangaroo closure * kangaroo code * kangaroo court * Kangaroo Defence, Kangaroo Defense * kangaroo-dog * kangaroo-fly * kangaroo-foot plant * kangaroo grass * kangaroo hare * kangaroo-hop * (Kangaroo Hoppet) * kangaroo-hound * (Kangaroo Island) * kangaroo jerboa * kangaroo justice * kangaroo meat * kangaroo mother care, kangaroo mother method * kangaroo mouse * kangaroo paw * kangaroo ship * kangaroo rat * kangaroo route * kangaroo's-foot, kangaroo's-foot plant * kangaroo-shoot * kangaroo-shooter * kangaroo-shooting * kangaroo skin * kangaroo-thorn * Kangaroo Tour * kangaroo trial * kangaroo unicycle * kangaroo vine * kangaroo word * musk kangaroo * rat-kangaroo * red kangaroo * rock kangaroo * roo * tree kangaroo * western grey kangaroo

    See also

    * joey * marsupial * (Resemblance of the folk-etymologies ) * wallaby

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.
  • To hunt kangaroo.

    • References

    * , Australian Aboriginal Words , Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-553099-3 * ----

    monday

    English

    (Week-day names)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The first day of the week in systems using the norm and second day of the week in many religious traditions. It follows Sunday and precedes Tuesday.
  • *
    • Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, would visit the farm every Monday morning to receive his instructions.
  • * Solomon Grundy,
    Born on a Monday ,
    Christened on Tuesday,
    Married on Wednesday
    ill on Thursday,
    worse on Friday,
    Died on Saturday,
    Buried on Sunday.
    Such was the life
    Of Solomon Grundy.

    • Derived terms

    * Ash Monday * Black Monday * Bloody Monday * blue Monday * Clean Monday * Collop Monday * Cyber Monday * Ducking Monday * Easter Monday * Fat Monday * Gang-Monday * Green Monday * Handsel Monday * Hock Monday * Holy Monday * Meal Monday * Mon, * Monday Club * Monday disease * * Monday effect * Monday fever * Monday hammer * Mondayish * Mondayitis * Mondayise, Mondayize * Mondayman * Monday-morning * Monday pops * Mondays * Pentecost Monday * Plough-Monday, Plow-Monday * Pure Monday * Rope Monday * Saint Monday * Saturday-to-Monday * Selection Monday * Shrove Monday * Trinity Monday * Wet Monday * Whit Monday, Whit-Monday * Whitsun Monday

    Adverb

    (-)
  • on Monday

    • See also

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