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Lumpen vs Porpentine - What's the difference?

lumpen | porpentine |

As nouns the difference between lumpen and porpentine

is that lumpen is rag, tatter, shred or lumpen can be while porpentine is (archaic) porcupine.

lumpen

English

Adjective

  • Of or referring to social outcasts.
  • Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.
  • Plebeian

    • Related terms

    * lumpenism

    Anagrams

    * English adjectives ending in -en ----

    porpentine

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) porcupine
  • * {{quote-book
    • , author= , title=(Hamlet) , section=Act 1, Scene V , passage=“GHOST: I could a tale unfold whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined locks to part / And each particular hair to stand on end, / Like quills upon the fretful porpentine }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter XI , passage=Odd that he [Hamlet's ghost] should have said porpentine when he meant porcupine. Slip of the tongue, no doubt, as so often happens with ghosts.}}