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Surfier vs Surfie - What's the difference?

surfier | surfie |

As an adjective surfier

is comparative of surfy.

As a noun surfie is

a surfer (one who rides a surfboard), especially one involved in the surfing subculture.

surfier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (surfy)

    • Anagrams

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    surfy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • of a shore, having lots of breaking waves
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=William Morris, title=The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Now again in the latter summer do those Kings of the Niblungs ride To chase the sons of the plunder that curse the ocean-side: So over the oaken rollers they run the cutters down Till fair in the first of the deep are the glittering bows up-thrown; But, shining wet and steel-clad, men leap from the surfy shore, And hang their shields on the gunwale, and cast abroad the oar; Then full to the outer ocean swing round the golden beaks, And Sigurd sits by the tiller and the host of the spoilers seeks. }}
  • characteristic of surf music
  • * {{quote-news, year=1993, date=September 3, author=Chris Dickinson, title=Singers to watch, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=All this is set to a driving backdrop of hard, slightly surfy , surprisingly powerful strumming. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 30, author=Ben Ratliff, title=Chanting, Jazzy, Beachy, Funky, Lonely Sounds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=They do a kind of surfy version of New Order, bright and clattery, a minimalist collision of the 1950s and the 1980s. }}

    surfie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia) A surfer (one who rides a surfboard), especially one involved in the surfing subculture.
  • * 1997 , , 20: On the Importance of Subcultural Origins'', Ken Gelder, Sarah Thornton, (editors), ''The Subcultures Reader , page 184,
    • Surfies' present to the dominant culture their leisure myth in magnified form. Bikies appear to challenge the values of the dominant culture, something which they are able to do because they, in the first place, like the ' surfies , accept them.
    The surfie subculture in its full form was confined to those areas of the world where there is surf.
  • * 2004 , Alan Greenhalgh, Gathers No Moss , Lulu Press, page 88,
    • The first youth to reach their carriage, a lanky aboriginal boy of about sixteen shouted, “Hey, we?ve got some surfies here!”
    “We?re not surfies',” Terry replied quietly. It was no good. In the era of the early nineteen sixties one was either a “'''surfie'''” or a “bodgie.” Bodgies hated ' surfies with a passion and welcomed any excuse for a good stoush.
  • * 2011 , Daryl Adair, 1: Making Sense of Australian Sport History'', Steve Georgakis, Katrina Marie Russell (editors), ''Youth Sport in Australia , Sydney University Press, page 3,
    • To the lifesavers the surfies' appeared self-indulgently radical; to ' surfies the lifeguards seemed subservient and conformist to authority.