Sidekick vs Tonto - What's the difference?
sidekick | tonto |
(informal) An assistant to another person, especially to one's superior or more important person.
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A sidekick.
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Stephen Arterburn, coauthors=Jack Felton, year=2010, passage=So do you have a Tonto in your life? If not, find one and make that person your trusted companion., pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=6-_6EUw_d9kC&pg=PA133&dq=Tonto}}
A Native American who accepts a subservient position to a white person.
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Ellenor Ranghild Merriken, year=1999, passage=Once more, Beyond the Survey takes up the topic, introducing a character Mowees (obviously an "Indianificarion" of the common Metis name Moise) who unfortunately never rises above the level of a Tonto figure.}}
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As nouns the difference between sidekick and tonto
is that sidekick is (informal) an assistant to another person, especially to one's superior or more important person while tonto is a fool, a stupid person.As a adjective tonto is
stupid, silly, dumb, foolish.sidekick
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(en noun)citation, page= , passage=In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.}}
