Beauty vs Bewdy - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between beauty and bewdy

is that beauty is the property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (aquinas); that which is attractive, pleasing, fine or good looking; comeliness while bewdy is .

As interjections the difference between beauty and bewdy

is that beauty is (canada) thanks! cool! while bewdy is .

As an adverb beauty

is (canada) of high quality, well done.

beauty

English

(wikipedia beauty)

Noun

The property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (Aquinas); that which is attractive, pleasing, fine or good looking; comeliness.

* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,

Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.

* 1988', "… '''beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -''Second Son , Robert Ferro

Someone who is beautiful.

Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty .

Something that is particularly good or pleasing.

That phrasing is a beauty .

What a goal, what a beauty .

An excellent or egregious example of something.

(with the definite article) The excellence, e.g. the genius

''The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!

(particle, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).

Beauty treatment; cosmetology.

(obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.

* Jeremy Taylor

She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty .

Usage notes

* Adjectives often applied to "beauty": natural, great, real, physical, exotic, inner, spiritual, strange, divine, visual, heavenly, intellectual, facial, attractive, sensuous, sensual, seductive, musical, austere, alluring, mathematical, geometric, astounding, bodily, pictorial.

Synonyms

* gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness * (someone who is beautiful) belle, looker * (something pleasing) gem, jewel * See also * See also

Antonyms

* repulsiveness, homeliness, ugliness

Derived terms

* age before beauty * bathing beauty * beaut * beauteous * beautician * beautifiable * beautification * beautifier * beautiful * beautifully * beautifulness * beautify * beautiless * beauty consultant * beauty contest * beauty is in the eye of the beholder * beauty is only skin deep * beauty mark * beauty pageant * beauty parlor * beauty quark * beauty salon * beauty school * beauty shop * beauty sleep * beauty spot * beauty strip * beautyberry * beautybush * beautydom * beautyhood * beautyship * California beauty * Camberwell beauty * line of beauty * meadow beauty * painted beauty * raw beauty * Rome beauty * Rutland beauty * Sleeping Beauty * spring beauty

Interjection

(en interjection)

(Canada) Thanks! Cool!

It's the long weekend. Beauty !

Adverb

(en adverb)

(Canada) Of high quality, well done.

He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.

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bewdy

English

Noun

(bewdies)

* 1933 , Blackwood's Magazine , Volume 233, page 350,

“Say,” she continued, “ I wish I had time ta take ya to a bewdy parlor. Yew'd look cute by the time I had ya face fixed and ya eyebrows done and ya hair waved.”

* 1936 , The American Caravan , Volume 5, page 625,

This was bewdy .

* 2008 , Nage Archer, Slave Heart , page 189,

Lovely smile, doncha know. She wos a bewdy , pretty as a rosella.

(Australia, informal) A beauty: a beautiful person or thing; an especially good example of something.

* 1987 , , John Larkin, Chipp , page 35,

The day before the Press Club luncheon, I was in Traralgon, Victoria, when a fellow came up to me in a bar and said, ‘Chippy, that bloody slogan suits you down to the ground. It?s a bewdy .’

* 1993 , , The Lonely Hunter , page 15,

‘Look at this bewdy .’ Romeo held out a fat rose from the bush he was pruning.

* 1997 , Paul Mitchell, Dodging the Bull , page 94,

But she still cooks a bewdy of a roast.

* 2000 , , page 172,

‘'This little bewdy I cut out of a magazine and stuck down on a piece of card... Don?t tell anyone, mind. The tourists love it.’

* 2004 , Peter Smith, Australia in the Raw: An Eclectic Collection of Meandering Musings , page 97,

Course the silly bugger fell in love with this Yank bewdy called Linda Koslowski and that was the end to his long term marriage.

Derived terms

* you bewdy (interjection)

Interjection

(en interjection)

I scored us a couple of tickets to the match on Saturday.'' — ''Bewdy , mate!

* 1993 , Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam , page 124,

The young woman gave them the fingers up and walked back disdainfully, ignoring their whistles and shouts of, ‘Bewdy , you showed him.’

* 2009 , Howard Young, Searching the Crocodile Coast: Sequel to Crocodile Coast Crash , page 6,

“Bewdy! ” said Hugh, as he turned away to get his breakfast.

* 2011 , , Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court , page 123,

‘Listen, I?ll give it some thought,’ I said. ‘I?ll come back to you tomorrow, okay?’ I was being polite.

‘Tomorrow? Bewdy ,’ said Mallon.