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Affection vs Goldbrick - What's the difference?

affection | goldbrick |

As nouns the difference between affection and goldbrick

is that affection is the act of affecting or acting upon while goldbrick is a gold brick, especially one that is fraudulent or nonexistent; a swindle, a con.

As verbs the difference between affection and goldbrick

is that affection is to feel an , emotion or love for while goldbrick is (us slang|dated) to shirk or malinger.

affection

English

(wikipedia affection)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of affecting or acting upon.
  • The state of being affected.
  • An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc., are affections of bodies.
  • Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-23, author=(Mark Cocker)
    • , volume=189, issue=11, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Wings of Desire , passage=Our affections for wild animals are distributed very unevenly. Take insects. Some 750,000 species have already been documented worldwide and the great American naturalist EO Wilson called them "the little things that run the world". Through their recycling of nutrients and the supply of base-level protein to a vast array of higher life forms, insects underpin the existence of life on this planet. Yet when it comes to human concern for creepy-crawlies, forget it.}}
  • A feeling of love or strong attachment.
  • * 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Chapter 61
    • Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her drew him oftener from home than anything else could do. He delighted in going to Pemberley, especially when he was least expected.
  • (medicine, archaic) Disease; morbid symptom; malady.
  • * Dunglison
    • a pulmonary affection

    Synonyms

    * (kind feeling) attachment, fondness, kindness, love, passion, tenderness

    Usage notes

    In the sense of "feeling of love or strong attachment", it is often in the plural; formerly followed by "to", but now more generally by "for" or "toward(s)", for example filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children

    Derived terms

    {{der3, affectional , affectionate , affectionated , affectionately , affectionateness , affectioned}}

    Related terms

    {{rel3, affect , affectation , affecter , affective}}

    Verb

  • to feel an , emotion or love for.

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    goldbrick

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gold-brick

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gold brick, especially one that is fraudulent or nonexistent; a swindle, a con.
  • * 1920 , , (The Smart Set),'' January 1920, collected in ''(Tales of the Jazz Age):
  • *:Experience is the biggest gold brick in the world. All older people have it for sale.
  • * 1932 , , Memoirs Of A Soldier Of Fortune , Kessinger Publishing (2006), ISBN 9781428658349, page 98:
    • These, as a rule, were not adverse to buying a goldbrick as long as they knew that there was a chance for them to dump it on somebody else afterwards with some profit.
  • * 1932 , in , Volume 166, page 520:
    • To-day, American attitude toward Europe is comparable to that of the country greenhorn who, having bought a goldbrick on Broadway, now fills the air not merely with the denunciation of the sharpers who tricked his credulity —
  • * 1945 , in the Department of Agriculture and Immigration Bulletin , Volumes 422–433, page 5:
    • The average farmer may be less of a victim than some other people by reason of his isolation, conservatism, and hard earned money, but he, too, has too often bought a goldbrick that did not materialize.
  • * , quoted in Lewis M. Dabney, Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature , ][http://www.amazon.com/Edmund-Wilson-Literature-Lewis-Dabney/dp/0374113122 Macmillan (2005), ISBN 9780374113124, page 485:
  • (US slang, dated) A shirker or malingerer
  • * 1945 , Dr. Charley Haly, quoted in Doc: heroic stories of medics, corpsmen, and surgeons in combat by Mark R. Littleton, p. 68
  • *:Mac, there’s not a confounded thing wrong with you. You are an excellent physical specimen and in good health. You’re nothing but a goldbrick . Now, get your butt out of here and don’t ever come back again unless you’re really sick or need an immunization.
  • * 2004 (written ), (Howard Ashman), , “Proud of your Boy”:
  • *:Tell me that I’ve been a louse and loafer
  • *:You won’t get a fight here, no ma’am
  • *:Say I’m a goldbrick, a good-off, no good
  • *:But that couldn’t be all that I am
  • (US slang, dated) A swindler

    • Verb

  • (US slang, dated) To shirk or malinger
  • (US slang, dated) To swindle

    • Derived terms

    * goldbricker

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