Bidding vs Beck - What's the difference?
bidding | beck | Synonyms |
That which one is bidden to do; a command.
* 1868 , Fulwar William Fowle, Sermons preached in the cathedral church of Salisbury (page 172)
The act of placing a bid.
* Rowland E. Prothero, English Farming, Past and Present (page 322)
(Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
* Drayton
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
(archaic) To nod or motion with the head.
* Shakespeare
*{{quote-book, year=1896, author=Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, title=Winter Evening Tales, chapter=, edition=
, passage="I'll buy so many acres of old Scotland and call them by the Lockerby's name; and I'll have nobles and great men come bowing and becking to David Lockerby as they do to Alexander Gordon. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Various, title=The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The becking waiter, that with wreathed smiles, wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their "supper of the gods," has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpence and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing. }}
Bidding is a synonym of beck.
As a verb bidding
is .As a noun bidding
is that which one is bidden to do; a command.As a proper noun beck is
a botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist günther von mannagetta und lërchenau beck (1856-1931).bidding
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Do their biddings , and they will lead you to "whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report."
- Their biddings forced existing owners into ruinous competition; they mortgaged their ancestral acres to buy up outlying properties or round off their boundaries.
beck
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with low German bek or beckNoun
(en noun)- The brooks, the becks , the rills.
Synonyms
* brook * burn * creek * streamEtymology 2
A shortened form of (beckon), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- To be at the beck and call of someone.
Verb
(en verb)- When gold and silver becks me to come on.
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