Traffic vs Trafficky - What's the difference?
traffic | trafficky |
Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
* 1719 , :
* 2007 , John Darwin, After Tamerlane , Penguin 2008, p. 12:
Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
Commodities of the market.
* John Gay
To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
(informal) Characterised by traffic; having the noise and commotion of motor vehicles.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 23, author=Elizabeth Giddens, title=Parks on a Lark, work=New York Times
, passage=In addition to the charming incongruity of lush grass and lounge chairs amid the trafficky chaos of New York’s streetscape, the event, which is sponsored by the Trust for Public Land , provoked animated discussions about land use. }}
As a noun traffic
is pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.As a verb traffic
is to pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.As an adjective trafficky is
(informal) characterised by traffic; having the noise and commotion of motor vehicles.traffic
English
(wikipedia traffic)Alternative forms
* traffickNoun
(-)- Traffic is slow at rush hour.
- I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).
- It's units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.
- You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
Derived terms
* traffic boy * traffic jamVerb
(traffick)References
*trafficky
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Adjective
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