Tiger vs Puli - What's the difference?
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Panthera tigris , a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
# A male tiger.
A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XVII, ''The Beginnings
A leopard.
* 1907 , Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld , Longmans 1976 ed., ISBN 0582161231, page 251:
(US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
* 2010 , Jeff Wilser, The Maxims of Manhood
(figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
* Shakespeare
(US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.
A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
(Webster 1913)
One of a breed of Hungarian sheepdog with a distinctive thick, corded coat.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 11, author=Katie Thomas, title=10-Year-Old Spaniel Completes Comeback, work=New York Times
, passage=Other dogs competing in Best in Show were a standard poodle, a Scottish terrier, a puli , a Brussels griffon and a Scottish deerhound. }}
As nouns the difference between tiger and puli
is that tiger is Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia while puli is one of a breed of Hungarian sheepdog with a distinctive thick, corded coat.As a proper noun Tiger
is a town in Georgia.tiger
English
(wikipedia tiger)Alternative forms
* tigre (obsolete) * tyger (dated)Noun
(en noun)- (Dickens)
- The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger , thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.
- Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.
- Don't Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.
- As for heinous tiger , Tamora.
- three cheers and a tiger
Synonyms
* Panthera tigrisDerived terms
* Asian Tiger (business) * Bali tiger * Bengal tiger * Sumatran tiger * Siberian tiger * Tasmanian tiger * blind tiger * have a tiger by the tail * paper tiger * tiger beetle * tiger cat * tiger lily * tiger moth * tiger mother * tiger shark * tiger snake * tigereye * tigerish * tigerlikeHypernyms
* felidAnagrams
* South African English ----puli
English
Noun
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