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Yerb vs Gerb - What's the difference?

yerb | gerb |

As nouns the difference between yerb and gerb

is that yerb is eye dialect of lang=en while gerb is a firework that produces a fountain of sparks.

yerb

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1850, author=William Cullen Bryant, title=Letters of a Traveller, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="At the same time we got a yerb " (such was his pronunciation) "on the hills, which some call lion-heart, and others snake-head." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Charles Egbert Craddock, title=The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=When he ventured to sneeze, Mrs. Roxby compounded and administered a "yerb tea," a sovereign remedy against colds, which he tasted on compulsion and in great doubt, and swallowed with alacrity and confidence, finding its basis the easily recognizable "toddy." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, title=Brother Copas, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The ancients, by which I mean the Greeks, set amazin' store by the yerb . }}

    Anagrams

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    gerb

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia gerb) (en noun)
  • A firework that produces a fountain of sparks

    • Anagrams

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