Kerby vs Derby - What's the difference?
kerby | derby |
A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound.
* 2011 , Adrian McKinty, Dead I Well May Be (page 133)
* 2014 , Simon Danczuk, ?Matt Baker, Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith
* 2014 , Samantha Nash, All Muck and Mullets (page 43)
Any of several annual horseraces.
By extension, any organized race.
(US) A bowler hat
*1906 , O. Henry,
*:He began to fan her with his hat. That was successful, for he struck her nose with the brim of his derby and she opened her eyes.
(sports) A local derby
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=April 15
, author=Saj Chowdhury
, title=Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest
, work=BBC Sport
As a noun kerby
is a children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound.As a proper noun derby is
a city in the east midlands of england, once the county town of derbyshire.kerby
English
Noun
(-)- It's dusk and there are a lot of kids out playing kerby and tag and football. For a December night, the weather isn't bad.
- I'd play kerby in the street for hours looking up at contrails stretching across grey slate skies, wishing I was on a plane too, jetting away to somewhere else.
- The heat from the tarmac refracted the light and disturbed the vision of the children as they persisted in their game of kerby .
derby
English
Noun
(derbies)citation, page= , passage=Defeat sees Forest remain a point outside the top six with a derby against Leicester up next.}}
