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Bidet vs Bides - What's the difference?

bidet | bides |

As a noun bidet

is a low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus.

As a verb bides is

third-person singular of bide.

bidet

English

(wikipedia bidet)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus
  • (obsolete) A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.
  • (Ben Jonson)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    bides

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bide)
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    bide

    English

    Verb

  • (transitive, chiefly, dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
  • (intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
  • * Milton
  • All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.
  • (intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
  • (archaic) To wait for; to await.
  • Usage notes

    * The verb has been replaced by (abide) in Standard English for almost all its uses, and is now rarely found outside the expression (term, bide one's time).

    Derived terms

    * bide one's time * abide