Scrappy vs Felon - What's the difference?
scrappy | felon |
Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency.
(informal) Having an aggressive spirit; inclined to fight or strive.
* 2012 , Mark Rice-Oxley, Underneath the Lemon Tree
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= A person who has committed a felony.
* 1859 , (Charles Dickens), A Tale of Two Cities , James Nisbet & Company (1902), Book 3, Chapter 6,
(legal) A person who has been tried]] and [[conviction, convicted of a felony.
As an adjective scrappy
is consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency.As a noun felon is
a person who has committed a felony.scrappy
English
Adjective
(er)- In those days PGS [Portsmouth Grammar School] was full of sadistic staff and scrappy boys called things like Smudger, Muzz and Titch.
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}
Synonyms
* (fragmentary): disconnected * (aggressive): feisty; pugnaciousfelon
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) felun, feloun, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 340:
- Looking at the Jury and the turbulent audience, he might have thought that the usual order of things was reversed, and that the felons were trying the honest men.
