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Reindeer vs Pony - What's the difference?

reindeer | pony |

As nouns the difference between reindeer and pony

is that reindeer is an arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species rangifer tarandus , with a number of subspecies while pony is pony (horse) or pony can be bangs, fringe (haircut ).

reindeer

English

(wikipedia reindeer) (Rangifer tarandus)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species Rangifer tarandus , with a number of subspecies.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author=Nancy Langston , title=Mining the Boreal North , volume=101, issue=2, page=98 , magazine= citation , passage=Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.}}

    Hyponyms

    * caribou

    Derived terms

    * arctic reindeer * Finnish forest reindeer * mountain reindeer * Siberian forest reindeer * Siberian reindeer * Svalbard reindeer * wild reindeer

    pony

    English

    (wikipedia pony)

    Etymology 1

    1659 from (etyl) (cognate to English foal).

    Noun

    (ponies)
  • Any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands.
  • (regional) A small serving of an alcoholic beverage.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 193:
    • Demon popped into his mouth a last morsel of black bread with elastic samlet, gulped down a last pony of vodka and took his place at the table with Marina facing him across its oblong length.
  • * 2010 , Dick Lynas, Pies Were for Thursdays: Tales from an Ordinary Glasgow East End Childhood , page 283,
    • I did not even know what a ‘pony'’, a small chaser of beer, was. But of course I could not admit that. So putting on an air of nonchalance, and a deep voice, I strolled into a pub with one of the other equally naive guys and we ordered two ' ponies of beer.
    ‘McEwans?’ asked the barman.
    ‘Naw - ponies ’ said I.
  • (Australia, New South Wales, Victoria) A serving of 140 millilitres of beer.
  • (UK, slang) Twenty-five pounds sterling.
  • (US, slang) A translation used as a study aid; loosely, a crib, a cheat-sheet.
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "pony and trap" ) Crap; rubbish, nonsense.
    • Synonyms
    * (l)
    Derived terms
    * dog and pony show * play the ponies * polo pony * pony and trap * pony chaise * pony engine * pony express * pony glass * pony keg * pony truck * pony truss * pony up * Shetland pony

    Verb

  • To lead (a horse) from another horse.

    • Etymology 2

    Shortened from (pony and trap), rhyming with (crap)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) Of little worth.
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