Bask vs Busk - What's the difference?
bask | busk |
To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat.
* Goldsmith
(figurative) To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in").
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=As President Obama turns his attention once again to filling out a cabinet and writing an Inaugural Address, this much is clear: he should not expect to bask in a surge of national unity, or to witness a crowd of millions overrun the Mall just to say they were there.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=April 10
, author=Alistair Magowan
, title=Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle
, work=BBC Sport
A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
* Marston
(by extension) A corset.
* 1661 , John Donne, "To his Mistress going to Bed":
(obsolete) A kind of linen.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 557:
To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
*
To go; to direct one's course. [Obs.]
To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport
(nautical) To tack, to cruise about.
As verbs the difference between bask and busk
is that bask is to bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat while busk is to prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.As a noun busk is
a strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.bask
English
Verb
(en verb)- to bask in the sun
- basks in the glare, and stems the tepid wave.
- I basked in her love.
- to bask in someone's favour
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busk
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) busc, by dissimilation from buste from (etyl) busto.Noun
(en noun)- Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk , puff verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelical.
- Off with that happy busk , which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
Etymology 2
EtymologyNoun
(en noun)- Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) busken, from (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Busk you, busk you, my bonny, bonny bride. — Hamilton.
- The watch stert up and drew their weapons bright
- And busk'd them bold to battle and to fight. — Fairfax.
- Ye might have busked you to Huntly banks. — Skelton.
