Scarlett vs Raccoon - What's the difference?
scarlett | raccoon |
for a dyer or seller of (scarlet) fabric.
* 1854 Alfred Tennyson: The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava :
transferred from the surname; in general use since 1936.
* 1936 Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind : Chapter III:
A nocturnal omnivore native to North America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; Procyon lotor .
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 64:
* 2010 , Charlie Brooker, "Screen Burn", The Guardian , 3 Apr 2010:
Any mammal of the genus Procyon .
Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.
Any mammal of the family Procyonidae, a procyonid.
As a proper noun scarlett
is for a dyer or seller of (scarlet) fabric.As a noun raccoon is
a nocturnal omnivore native to north america, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; procyon lotor .scarlett
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- For Scarlett' and ' Scarlett's three hundred were riding by
- When the points of the Russian lances arose in the sky;
- 'There now, Scarlett ! You admit it is true. What would you be doing with a husband like Ashley? 'Tis moonstruck they all are, all the Wilkes.'
Anagrams
*raccoon
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(wikipedia raccoon)Alternative forms
* racoon * rarowcun * r'coon (colloquial contraction)Noun
(en noun)- Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by.
- Thus we're presented witha man who has the head of his penis bitten off by a raccoon , then bleeds to death in a forest.
