Puppy vs Tiger - What's the difference?
puppy | tiger |
A young dog, usually cute and playful.
A young rat.
A young seal.
(slang, usually, in the plural) A woman’s breast.
(informal) A (generic) thing; particularly something that is a nuisance; a sucker.
(derogatory) A conceited and impertinent person.
* Addison
To bring forth whelps; to pup.
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)
As nouns the difference between puppy and tiger
is that puppy is a young dog, usually cute and playful while tiger is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc.As a verb puppy
is to bring forth whelps; to pup.As a proper noun tiger is
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English
Noun
(puppies)- I have another two dozen of these puppies to finish before I can go home.
- I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm.
Synonyms
* (young dog) dogling, pup, whelp * (young seal) pup * See alsoDerived terms
* puppy fat * puppy love * hushpuppy * puppyhood * sick puppy * stress puppyVerb
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