Noah vs Anthony - What's the difference?
noah | anthony |
(religion) A figure in Abrahamic religions, believed to have built an ark to save his family and members of each species of animal from the Great Flood.
* 1611 , 7:7 :
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* 1984 , Parachutes & Kisses , ISBN:0451138775, page 354:
The 71st sura (chapter) of the Quran
(Australian, Australian rhyming slang) ; shark.
* 1998 , Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna? ,
* 2003 , Kurt Blanksby, Fishing Guide to Western Australia , Revised and updated 2010,
* 2006 , Andrew Whitehead, Solomon Quest ,
, in regular use since the Middle Ages.
* 1922 , The Beautiful and Damned :
* 1952 Thomas Pyles, Words and Ways of American English , Random House, page 245:
* 1955 (Joseph Heller), Catch-22 , Chapter Five:
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As proper nouns the difference between noah and anthony
is that noah is (religion) a figure in abrahamic religions, believed to have built an ark to save his family and members of each species of animal from the great flood while anthony is , in regular use since the middle ages.As a noun noah
is (australian|australian rhyming slang) ; shark.noah
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
- Easy to account for those trends - but what of post-Vietnam America and its generation of little Noahs ? Were we expecting a flood momentarily?
Derived terms
* Noahide * Noahite * NoahticSee also
* ("Noah" on Wikipedia)Etymology 2
Abbreviation of Australian rhyming slang .Noun
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- I pulled the line in. There was a head on the end. That?s all – just the fish?s head, the body had been bitten off.
- Then Team-man pulled in a head. So did the old man.
- ‘Noahs. That?s the end of that,’ said the old man. ‘Looks like we?re going anyway.’
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- Balloon fishing from the rock when the winds are correct can be a very productive way to target big mackerel and tuna, however the large number of sharks means that you will spend plenty of time battling unstoppable noahs between decent macks.
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- It looks like Jim and Rene are going ahead of us to chase away any big Noahs that might be lurking around.” Scott grinned to show that it was a joke and Jim waved to the group in acknowledgement.
- “What do you mean ‘Noahs ’?” asked a hefty millionaire from Minneapolis.
- “Noah?s Arks,” one of the Australians answered for Scott. “Sharks.”
anthony
English
Alternative forms
* AntonyProper noun
(en proper noun)- "...Think you've got the best name I've heard," she was saying. - - "Anthony' Patch. Only you ought to look sort of like a horse, with a long narrow face - and you ought to be in tatters." "That's the Patch part though. How should '''Anthony''' look?" "You look like ' Anthony ," she assured him seriously - he thought she had scarcely seen him - "rather majestic," she continued, " and solemn."
- It is doubtless true that American English lacks a tradition for the pronunciation of Anthony'' , a name which was not often bestowed upon American males until the comparatively recent craze for supposedly swank "British" Christian names, like ''Stephen'', ''Peter'', ''Michael , etc., in this country.
- She was built like a dream and wore a chain around her neck with a medal of Saint Anthony' hanging down inside the most beautiful bosom I never saw. "It must be a terrible temptation for Saint '''Anthony'''," I joked - just to put her at ease, you know. "Saint '''Anthony'''?" her husband said. "Who's Saint ' Anthony ?"