Victor vs Jake - What's the difference?
victor | jake |
The winner in a fight or contest.
* {{quote-news
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, date=October 23
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City
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The letter V in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
(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 a proper noun victor
is , cognate to english victor.As a noun jake is
collar.As an interjection jake is
come.victor
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=City were also the victors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as a measure of their progress against the 19-time champions.}}
Synonyms
* winner * conquerorDerived terms
* victorious adjective * victory nounExternal links
* * * ----jake
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.
