Acorn vs Scorn - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between acorn and scorn

is that acorn is the fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule while scorn is (uncountable) contempt or disdain.

As a verb scorn is

to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

acorn

English

Noun

(en noun)

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

(nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

(zoology) See acorn-shell .

(slang, usually in plural) A testicle.

Derived terms

* acorn cup * acorn nut * acorn squash * eggcorn * ride a horse foaled by an acorn

Holonyms

* (fruit of an oak) oak

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scorn

English

Verb

(en verb)

To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

* C. J. Smith

We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.

To scoff, express contempt.

To reject, turn down

He scorned her romantic advances.

To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

She scorned to show weakness.

Synonyms

* See also

Noun

(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.

(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.

* Dryden

Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.

(countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

* Bible, Psalms xliv. 13

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Usage notes

* Scorn'' is often used in the phrases ''pour scorn on'' and ''heap scorn on .

Quotations

* circa 1605': The cry is still 'They come': our castle's strength / Will laugh a siege to '''scorn — '' * 1967', Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined '''scorn — John Berryman, ''Berryman's Sonnets . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux.