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Puce vs Oink - What's the difference?

puce | oink |

As nouns the difference between puce and oink

is that puce is a brownish-purple color according to the american heritage dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple while oink is the sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.

As an adjective puce

is of a brownish-purple color according to the american heritage dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple.

As an interjection oink is

representing the sound made by a pig.

As a verb oink is

of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.

puce

English

(wikipedia puce)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple.
  • See also

    * ----

    oink

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Representing the sound made by a pig.
  • Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig ).
  • * 1982 , Sandy Asher, Just like Jenny?
  • Mom swallowed a spoonful of pudding and looked Daddy straight in the eye. "Oink , oink," she said, to let him know he was being a male chauvinist pig.
  • * 2003 , Robert N. Mansfield, Randy Maas, The Assassin: Attack on America
  • "The tub is too small!" "Then, I'll go first and you'll have to wait!" "Chauvinist pig!" "Oink , oink!"
  • * 2005 , Alinka Zyrmont, Forbidden Passion
  • You are such a male chauvinist oink , oink. You think that you are the only one who can drive a car or fly an airplane.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.
  • The protesters replied to the police officers' demands with a chorus of oinks .

    Synonyms

    * grunt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.
  • The hogs oinked happily in their pen as the farmer poured slop in their feeding trough.

    Synonyms

    * grunt

    See also

    * grunt * squeal

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