Tyler vs Jake - What's the difference?
tyler | jake |
for a tiler.
transferred from the surname.
* 1930 Henry Robinson Luce, Fortune (published by Time, inc., 1930):
* 1977 Peter Tauber, The Last Best Hope (ISBN 0151483779), page 78:
used since the 1980s.
A city in Minnesota.
A city in Texas.
(slang) Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.
*1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 126:
*:‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake .’
(US) A juvenile male turkey.
* 1998 , Jerome B Robinson, In the Turkey Woods
As nouns the difference between tyler and jake
is that tyler is while jake is collar.As an interjection jake is
come.tyler
English
Proper noun
(s)- However, the whippet-like appearance of most Tyler' Corp. executives suggests what McKinney really wants is a spring-legged crew that can run its competitors into the ground. - - - It's no coincidence, either, that his seven-year-old son is named ' Tyler .
- "Yeah, I guess. I'm part Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth - on paper."
- Zermatt sucked his teeth, still dubious. "I thought Cobb was Tyrus."
- "Sounded too foreign for my mom or something. And there was some Scottish rebel named Tyler - maybe a cousin, so they compromised. It's kind of presidential, too, I guess. And my middle name is for - da-dum! - George Herman Ruth."
Derived terms
* Tylerism * Tylerize English unisex given namesjake
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- The spring turkey woods are occupied by roaming bands of jakes — year-old males with strong mating urges but inferior body size.