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Ballyhoo vs Gar - What's the difference?

ballyhoo | gar |

As nouns the difference between ballyhoo and gar

is that ballyhoo is sensational or clamorous advertising or publicity or ballyhoo can be , an inshore, surface-dwelling species of needlefish forming sizeable schools or ballyhoo can be an unseaworthy or slovenly ship while gar is gaur (species of wild cattle).

As a verb ballyhoo

is to sensationalise or make grand claims.

ballyhoo

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

(en noun)
  • Sensational or clamorous advertising or publicity.
  • Noisy shouting or uproar.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sensationalise or make grand claims.
  • * 1933 — (7 May)
    • Industry has picked up, railroads are carrying more freight, farm prices are better, but I am not going to indulge in issuing proclamations of over-enthusiastic assurance. We cannot ballyhoo ourselves back to prosperity.

    Related terms

    * ballyhooed (pos a)

    Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • , an inshore, surface-dwelling species of needlefish forming sizeable schools.

    • Etymology 3

    Possibly from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unseaworthy or slovenly ship.

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    gar

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) gar, gare, gere, gore, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) spear

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several fish, of the family , that have long, narrow jaws; garfish

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) garren, gerren, from (etyl) gera, gerva'' (Swedish ''''), from (etyl) . Compare ''yare .

    Verb

  • * 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XX:
    • I shall firste begyn at Sandwyche, and there I shall go in my shearte, barefoote, and at every ten myles ende I shall founde and gar make an house of religious, of what order that ye woll assygne me [...].
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 15:
    • Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk! / While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk [...].

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