Tattoo vs Taboo - What's the difference?
tattoo | taboo |
An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface. The skin is punctured with a sharp instrument, which now is usually a solenoid-driven needle, that carries the inks to lower layers of the skin.
To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
(baseball) To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.
(nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
A military display or pageant.
An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
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* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 213:
(in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
Culturally forbidden.
As nouns the difference between tattoo and taboo
is that tattoo is an image made in the skin with ink and a needle while taboo is an inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.As verbs the difference between tattoo and taboo
is that tattoo is to apply a tattoo to (someone or something) while taboo is to mark as taboo.As an adjective taboo is
excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.tattoo
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia tattoo) (en noun)Verb
- Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.
Derived terms
* tatt * tattoo artist * tattoo parlour *Etymology 2
From (etyl) taptoe.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl) tatt? .taboo
English
(wikipedia taboo)Alternative forms
* tabuNoun
(en noun)- The sharp differentiation of the sexes in our culture was shaped most probably by monogamy and monosexuality and their tabus .
Adjective
(en adjective)- Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.
