Whelp vs Scar - What's the difference?
whelp | scar |
A young offspring of a canid (ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
(derogatory) An insolent youth; a mere child.
* Addison
(obsolete) A kind of ship.
One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket, def. 2; cog, def. 1).
(ambitransitive) To give birth.
To mark the skin permanently.
* Shakespeare
To form a scar.
(figurative) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
As nouns the difference between whelp and scar
is that whelp is a young offspring of a canid (ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub while scar is a permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound or scar can be a cliff or scar can be a marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish.As verbs the difference between whelp and scar
is that whelp is (ambitransitive) to give birth while scar is to mark the skin permanently.whelp
English
Noun
(en noun)- That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.
Derived terms
* fox whelp, fox-whelp, fox's whelp (foxling) * (Newfoundland) (l) * whelpling * wolf whelp, wolf-whelp, wolf's whelpSee also
* Guelf, Guelph * (l) * (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- The bitch whelped .
- The she-wolf whelped a large litter of cubs.
References
scar
English
(wikipedia scar)Etymology 1
Conflation of (etyl) . More at shard.Synonyms
* cicatriceVerb
(scarr)- Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.
- Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.