What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Tannie vs Tinnie - What's the difference?

tannie | tinnie |

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)
  • (South Africa) An older female authority figure.
  • * 2008 , Chris Cocks, Out of Action (page 135)
  • Normal biscuit cookies like the tannies , the Afrikaans aunties, made, but liberally laced with marijuana.
  • * 2011 , Charles Kingsley, From Afrikaner to Zebra – A Vet’s Life (page 81)
  • 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)
  • (Australia, slang) A of beer.
  • * 2005 , Jack Leonard, Bad Altitude , 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.
  • * 2008 , Peter Dragicevich, Jolyon Attwooll, Sydney , Lonely Planet, 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.
  • * 2011 , Calvin Wade, Forever Is Over , 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!
  • (Australia, slang) A small open aluminium boat.
  • * 2003 , Christopher Cummings, The Mudskipper Cup: A North Queensland Story about Navy Cadets , 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.
  • * 2007 , Caroline De Costa, Rookwood Island , page 239,
  • Part of the tinnie could be seen pushed up against the bank but otherwise it had all sunk.
  • * 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 , 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.
  • (New Zealand, slang) Small package of drugs wrapped in foil.
  • Derived terms

    * tinnie house

    See also

    * tinny

    Anagrams

    * *