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Characteristic vs Woggish - What's the difference?

characteristic | woggish |

As adjectives the difference between characteristic and woggish

is that characteristic is being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing while woggish is (slang|pejorative|ethnic slur) exhibiting qualities or behaviour considered characteristic of a wog.

As a noun characteristic

is a distinguishable feature of a person or thing.

characteristic

English

(wikipedia characteristic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}

    Synonyms

    * distinctive * exclusive * idiosyncratic * indicative * representative * signature * specific * typical

    Antonyms

    * uncharacteristic * untypical

    Derived terms

    * characteristic function * characteristicness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a distinguishable feature of a person or thing
  • (mathematics) the integer part of a logarithm
  • (nautical) the distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc)
  • (algebra, field theory) The minimum number of times that the unit of a field must be added unto itself in order to yield that field's zero, or, if that minimum natural number does not exist, then (the integer) zero.
    • A field's characteristic, if non-zero, must be a prime number.

    Synonyms

    * attribute * idiosyncrasy * mannerism * quality * tendency * trademark * trait * See also

    Derived terms

    * defining characteristic

    Related terms

    * characteristically

    See also

    * mantissa

    External links

    * *

    woggish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang, pejorative, ethnic slur) Exhibiting qualities or behaviour considered characteristic of a wog
  • * 1960 Manohar Malgonkar, Distant drum, Asia Pub. House, p60
    • I should have thought that we would have stopped all such woggish activities by now. I mean dancing and things.
  • * 1987 Anna Gibbs & Alison Tilson, Frictions, an anthology of fiction by women, Spinifex Press, p6
    • They were too unrestrainedly ethnic, too woggish (from another point of view), not middle-class enough for my father [...]
  • * 2006 Irfan Agha, Uncle Cuckoo, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu, p104
    • Thank God at least you don't speak with a woggish accent.