Tannie vs Tinnie - What's the difference?
tannie | tinnie |
(South Africa) An older female authority figure.
* 2008 , Chris Cocks, Out of Action (page 135)
* 2011 , Charles Kingsley, From Afrikaner to Zebra – A Vet’s Life (page 81)
(Australia, slang) A of beer.
* 2005 , Jack Leonard, Bad Altitude ,
* 2008 , Peter Dragicevich, Jolyon Attwooll, Sydney , Lonely Planet,
* 2011 , Calvin Wade, Forever Is Over ,
(Australia, slang) A small open aluminium boat.
* 2003 , Christopher Cummings, The Mudskipper Cup: A North Queensland Story about Navy Cadets ,
* 2007 , Caroline De Costa, Rookwood Island ,
* 2009 , Rebecca Pannell, Seachange, Where Fish Fly'', Susan Hosking, Rick Hosking, Rebecca Pannell, Nena Bierbaum (editors), ''Something Rich and Strange: Sea Changes, Beaches and the Littoral in the Antipodes ,
(New Zealand, slang) Small package of drugs wrapped in foil.
As nouns the difference between tannie and tinnie
is that tannie is (south africa) an older female authority figure while tinnie is (australia|slang) a of beer.tannie
English
Noun
(en noun)- Normal biscuit cookies like the tannies , the Afrikaans aunties, made, but liberally laced with marijuana.
- I had done the same as a student at outpatients, listening to a succession of tannies with their hair in curlers
Synonyms
* antie ----tinnie
English
Noun
(en noun)page 170,
- Far better to send one of the girls out for a pizza and some tinnies , and then give her undivided attention when she returns.
page 154,
- In a city where alcohol was once the main currency (see p23), it?s little wonder that drinking is a big part of the social fabric – whether it?s knocking back some tinnies on the beach or meeting mates at the pub.
page 378,
- I?m forty and Tyrene says if I keep supping the tinnies at this rate it won?t be long before I?m forty stone! I?m nineteen stone right now and if I had a dollar for every time Tyrene called me a “big, fat, lazy bastard”, I could charter a yacht and sail to the Whitsundays and we live in Perth!
page 355,
- The bullies laughed and whistled and the tinnie turned once more, this time racing straight towards them from the port beam, bows tilted up, spray creaming out.
page 239,
- Part of the tinnie could be seen pushed up against the bank but otherwise it had all sunk.
page 56,
- The miracles seem to have followed Kevin and Trevor who have remarkably travelled over fifty-eight nautical miles in little more than a tinnie , encountering all sorts of astounding natural phenomena such as enormous whales and strangely behaving sharks, bixarre star patterns and odd schools of fish.