different between slobbery vs taxonomy

English

Etymology 1

slobber +? -y

Adjective

slobbery (comparative slobberier, superlative slobberiest)

1. Wet and slimy, containing slobber, having the consistency of slobber.
   • 2007, Elinor de Wire - The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses page xi

     He placed one paw on my right thigh and planted a slobbery dog kiss on my cheek.

     "Well! Make yourself at home, why don't you?" I joked.

2. Prone to produce an excess of saliva or slobber.
   • 2004, Susan Johnson - The Broken Book page 25.

     My own lips are slobbery suckers, the bane of my life, the subject of teasing by Peggy Gordon, who has recently taken to calling me Lubra Lips.

Etymology 2

slob +? -ery

Noun

slobbery (uncountable)

1. The behaviour or attitudes of a slob; slobbishness.
   • 1981, Tom Cohan, Canary (page 319)

     Darrell Johns […] sat across from him in his plaid Sears wash-and-wear jacket, fast approaching Ruffino's sotted state of slobbery.

Anagrams

• lobbyers

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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