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Beasted vs Basted - What's the difference?

beasted | basted |

As verbs the difference between beasted and basted

is that beasted is (beast) while basted is (baste).

beasted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (beast)
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    beast

    English

    (wikipedia beast)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
  • (more specific)  A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
  • *
  • Boxer was an enormous beast , nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
  • A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
  • (slang) A large and impressive automobile.
  • (slang, prisons) A sex offender.
  • * 1994 , Elaine Player, Michael Jenkins, Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot (page 190)
  • Shouts had been heard: 'We're coming to kill you, beasts .' In desperation, Rule 43s had tried to barricade their doors
  • * 1994 , Adam Sampson, Acts of Abuse: Sex Offenders And the Criminal Justice System (page 83)
  • For many prisoners and in many prisons, antipathy towards 'nonces' or 'beasts' is little more than an idea
  • (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
  • * 2000 , Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon , Berkley (2001), ISBN 9780425180969, page 905:
  • Even unopposed, the natural obstacles are formidable, and defending his line of advance will be a beast of a problem."
  • * 2006 , Heather Burt, Adam's Peak , Dundurn Press (2006), ISBN 9781550026467, page 114:
  • He'd be in the hospital a few days — broken collarbone, a cast on his arm, a beast of a headache — but fine.
  • * 2011 , :
  • And, oh, poor Atlas / The world's a beast of a burden / You've been holding up a long time

    Derived terms

    * beastly * saddle beast

    See also

    * belluine (suppletive adjective)

    Derived terms

    * beast fable * beast of burden * beast of draft * beast of prey * beastie * beastly * beastmaster * beauty and the beast * king of beasts * lobola-beast * belly of the beast

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (British, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) great; excellent; powerful
  • * 1999 , "Jason Chue", AMD K6-2 350mhz, FIC VA503+, LGS 64mb PC100 sdram'' (on newsgroup ''jaring.pcbase )
  • There is another type from Siemens which is the HYB 39S64XXX(AT/ATL) -8B version (notice the "B" and the end) which is totally beast altogether.
  • * 2012 , Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits (page 37)
  • Translation: a piece of crap, but the rest of the car was totally beast .

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    basted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (baste)
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    baste

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (bast)
  • To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1991, date=June 14, author=J.F. Pirro, title=Custom Work, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later. }}

    Etymology 2

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    Verb

    (bast)
  • To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
  • (by extension) To coat over something
  • * {{quote-news, year=2001, date=April 20, author=Peter Margasak, title=Almost Famous, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=Ice Cold Daydream" bastes the bayou funk of the Meters in swirling psychedelia, while "Sweet Thang," a swampy blues cowritten with his dad, sounds like something from Dr. John's "Night Tripper" phase. }}
  • To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
  • Etymology 3

    Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian source. Compare (etyl) (whence (etyl) ). Compare also (etyl) and (etyl)

    Verb

    (bast)
  • To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
  • * Samuel Pepys
  • One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.

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