Taxonomy vs Woggish - What's the difference?
taxonomy | woggish |
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
(slang, pejorative, ethnic slur) Exhibiting qualities or behaviour considered characteristic of a wog
* 1960 Manohar Malgonkar, Distant drum, Asia Pub. House, p60
* 1987 Anna Gibbs & Alison Tilson, Frictions, an anthology of fiction by women, Spinifex Press, p6
* 2006 Irfan Agha, Uncle Cuckoo, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu, p104
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As an adjective woggish is
(slang|pejorative|ethnic slur) exhibiting qualities or behaviour considered characteristic of a wog.taxonomy
English
(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee also
* classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontologywoggish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I should have thought that we would have stopped all such woggish activities by now. I mean dancing and things.
- They were too unrestrainedly ethnic, too woggish (from another point of view), not middle-class enough for my father [...]
- Thank God at least you don't speak with a woggish accent.