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Savage vs Droogish - What's the difference?

savage | droogish |

As adjectives the difference between savage and droogish

is that savage is wild; not cultivated while droogish is amoral and savage, like a droog.

As a noun savage

is an uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.

As a verb savage

is to attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.

As a proper noun Savage

is {{surname|lang=en}.

savage

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • wild; not cultivated
    • a savage wilderness
  • * Dryden
    • savage berries of the wood
  • barbaric; not civilized
    • savage manners
  • * 1719-
    • I observed a place where there had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth, like a cockpit, where I supposed the savage wretches had sat down to their human feastings upon the bodies of their fellow-creatures.
  • * E. D. Griffin
    • What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?
  • fierce and ferocious
    • savage beasts
    a savage spirit
  • brutal, vicious or merciless
    • He gave the dog a savage kick.
    The woman was killed in a savage manner.
  • (UK, slang) unpleasant or unfair
    • - I'll see you in detention.
    - Ah, savage !

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
  • * 1847 , , Tancred: or The New Crusade , page 251
    • 'Well, my lord, I don't know,' said Freeman with a sort of jolly sneer; 'we have been dining with the savages'.'
    'They are not '     savages     , Freeman.'
    'Well, my lord, they have not much more clothes, anyhow; and as for knives and forks, there is not such a thing known.'
  • (figuratively) A defiant person.

    • Verb

    (transitive)
  • To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
  • (figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
  • (obsolete) To make savage.
  • * South
    • Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.

    Anagrams

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    droogish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Amoral and savage, like a droog.
  • * 1973 , William Faure, Images of Violence
    • In the second case, when droogish chivalry is revealed as illusory, Kubrick makes the scene ironic by timing it to Gene Kelly's song of joy from Singin' in the Rain (1952).
  • * 1988 , Mark Crispin Miller, Boxed In: The Culture of TV
    • The rock star's droogish image had taken on a revolutionary glow; his music rang like a call to insurrection...
  • * 1993 , Human Life Foundation, The Human Life Review
    • These particular refugees have escaped the Droogish nightmare of Red Chinese environmentalists and are ensnared now in the grinding bureaucracy of immigration court.
  • * 2004 , Denis Wood, Five Billion Years of Global Change
    • I find the description wonderfully familiar, less the droogish quality, than the loosey-goosey opportunism.