Sharpie vs Scow - What's the difference?
sharpie | scow |
An alert person. (rfex)
(US, regional) A knowledgeable fisherman.
* 1976 December, Ken Schultz, Field & Stream Fishing Contest Winners: Nothing but the Best , ,
(US) A swindler.
*1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 102:
*:Three booths down a couple of sharpies were selling each other pieces of Twentieth Century Fox, using double arm gestures instead of money.
(US) A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters.
* 1995 , Rodney Barfield, Seasoned by Salt: A Historical Album of the Outer Banks ,
* 2006 , Greg Rössel, The Boatbuilder's Apprentice ,
(birdwatching)
* 2005 , Bill Thompson, Eirik A. T. Blom, Jeffrey A. Gordon, Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges ,
* 2010 , Era S. VanDenburg, The Natural World of Ivy Lane ,
(Australia) A member of a violent, fashionably dressed youth gang of the 1960s and 1970s.
* 2006 , Iain McIntyre, Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970 ,
A felt-tipped marker pen.
As nouns the difference between sharpie and scow
is that sharpie is an alert person while scow is a large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.As a verb scow is
to transport in a scow.sharpie
English
Alternative forms
* (member of an Australian youth gang) sharpNoun
(wikipedia sharpie) (en noun)page 78,
- Eventually DeBlasio became a sharpie .
- In New York and New Jersey coastal fishing parlance a “sharpie” is one who fishes seven days a week all summer long, selling his fish to the market to make a living. Sharpies supposedly have fishing down to a science, to such a degree that they only go to particular places, at particular times, using particular fishing methods, and come back with a boatload of fish while everyone else wonders in amazement.
page 168,
- He brought this pair of sharpies , the Lucia'' and the ''Ella , to Beaufort by schooner and began to use them for fishing, oyster dredging, and even as a passenger ferry and party boat.
- The sharpie is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft vesel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner.
page 293,
- On the other end of the spectrum are the flat-bottomed sharpies'. The earliest ' sharpies were developed in the mid-nineteenth century as the ideal boats for the oyster fishery of the Connecticut shore.
page 93,
- It is harder to gauge the shorter tail of sharpies', but on sitting birds the tail shape is a more useful character than it is on flying birds. ' Sharpies of all ages and sexes almost always show a notched tail when they are sitting.
page 48,
- My mother had lost a considerable number of spring chicks to a raiding sharpie .
page 47,
- The Circle Ballroom in High Street Preston was another popular sharpie' hang-out.' Sharpies were all deep drinkers.