different between smegger vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

Coined in the television series Red Dwarf, from smeg +? -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

smegger (plural smeggers)

1. (slang, derogatory) A hateful person or thing.
   • 1998, "John Duffey", - A comment by JMS! (discussion on Internet newsgroup alt.babylon5.uk)

     I'd send in something that sent back some kind of telemetary ^[sic], to see what was going on. If some bastard goes and blows it up, you send in about 40,000 ships and kill the smeggers.

   • 2002, "Dr. Smartass", New HOPE for Hoooooooooooooooomosexuals! (discussion on Internet newsgroup alt.recovery.catholicism)

     I remember you now. You're that smegger who floods a thread with the same message over and over...and the same smegger who top-posts.

   • 2007, Erik Ringmar, A Blogger's Manifesto

     Evil boss then has cheek to ask me to work one of the bloody bank holidays in the week he refused me off. Cheeky smegger. Said no.

Synonyms

• bastard
• blighter
• bugger

Anagrams

• megergs, meggers

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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