Harry vs Ben - What's the difference?
harry | ben |
To bother; to trouble.
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To strip; to lay waste.
* Washington Irving
* J. Burroughs
(Scotland, northern England) In, into.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 32:
Inner, interior.
(Scotland, Northern England) Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but).
A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben.
The winged seed of the ben tree.
The oil of the ben seed.
(usually, capitalised) Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames).
As proper nouns the difference between harry and ben
is that harry is a given name derived from Germanic, also used as a pet form of Henry and Harold while Ben is a diminutive of the male given name Benjamin or, less often, of Benedict.As a verb harry
is to bother; to trouble.As a noun ben is
a prayer; a petition.As a preposition ben is
in, into.As an adjective ben is
inner, interior.harry
English
Verb
(en-verb)- We shall harry the enemy at every turn until his morale breaks and he is at our mercy.
- (Shakespeare)
- The Northmen came several times and harried the land.
- to harry this beautiful region
- A red squirrel had harried the nest of a wood thrush.
Synonyms
* bother, disturb, harass, trouble, worryDerived terms
* harrier ----ben
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ben, bene, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) ben, bene, variation of bin, .Preposition
(English prepositions)- And he was waving to me to creep in, so I just did and then just to skip ben the front and then in the lobby.
