Lino vs Wino - What's the difference?
lino | wino |
(Australia, NZ, UK, colloquial, informal)
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Dogs ...No Way
, group=aus.jokes
, author=Malcolm Tippett
, date=July 20
, year=1996
, passage=The third thing was the TORN lino' in the kitchen , new puppy found it great fun to tear strips of '''lino''' off the floor .. first you scrabble like crazy with your claws to start a tear , and then you use teeth to tear off a lovely strip of '''lino''' to chew . We are still too scared to replace the ' lino as the next puppy will probably do the same .
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Frontline or Advantage for fleas?
, group=aus.pets
, author=Augie
, date=October 30
, year=2002
, passage=When we moved here, the people before had dogs, complete with crawling carpet and jumping lino'. When we ripped up all the carpet and ' lino prior to moving in, we also bought half a dozen flea bombs, and bombed UNDER the house.
* {{quote-newsgroup
, title=Found this old paper under the lino of a reno
, group=aus.sport.aussie-rules
, author=George W Frost
, date=April 25
, year=2010
, passage=I took up the lino from the kitchen and found this newspaper clipping
As a proper noun lino
is , akin to linus .As a noun wino is
(pejorative) a wine-drinking alcoholic or wino can be (physics) a hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the w boson.lino
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