Bike vs Quail - What's the difference?
bike | quail |
A short form of bicycle.
A short form of motorbike.
(slang) A promiscuous woman; from “the town bike (everybody rides her)”.
To ride a bike.
To travel by bike.
(Scotland, Northern England) A nest of wasps or hornets.
*1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 107:
*:he stood for a minute talking to them about their job of gathering cones, and telling them a story about a tree he'd once climbed which had a wasp's byke in it unbeknown to him.
To waste away; to fade, wither.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 358:
To lose heart or courage; to be daunted, fearful.
* Longfellow
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde):
* 1949 , (George Orwell), Nineteen Eighty-Four , p. 25:
To slacken, give way (of courage, faith etc.).
Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix'', ''Anurophasis'' or ''Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
(obsolete) A prostitute; so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
As nouns the difference between bike and quail
is that bike is a short form of bicycle while quail is any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.As verbs the difference between bike and quail
is that bike is to ride a bike while quail is to waste away; to fade, wither.As a proper noun Quail is
{{surname|from=Scottish Gaelic}.bike
English
Etymology 1
From , by shortening, and possibly alteration. One explanation for the pronunciation is that bicycle'' is parsed to ''bi(cy)c(le).'' An alternative explanation is that ''bicycle'' is shortened to ''bic(ycle),'' and the terminal [s] is converted to a [k] because there is an underlying [k]/[s] sound, which is softened to [s] in ''bicycle'' but retained as [k] in bike ; compare the letter ‘c’ (used for [k]/[s]).''An Etymological Brainteaser: The Shortening of Bicycle to Bike, Robert B. Hausmann, American Speech, Vol. 51, No. 3/4 (Autumn - Winter, 1976), pp. 272–274
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (motorcycle): motorbike * (woman): slapper (British''), slag (''British )Derived terms
* (bicycle) cross bike; dirt bike; like riding a bike; mountain bike; road bike; utility bike * (motorcycle) biker; bikey or bikie (Australia ); quad bike * (woman) town bike, village bikeSee also
* trikeReferences
Verb
(bik)- I biked so much yesterday that I'm very sore today.
- It was such a nice day I decided to bike to the store, though it's far enough I usually take my car.
Etymology 2
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* * English collective nouns ----quail
English
(wikipedia quail)Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; perhaps related to (etyl) queilen.Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- To tell the truth the prospect rather quailed him – wandering about in the gloomy corridors of a nunnery.
- Stouter hearts than a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter.
- Mr. Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde; but when the stick was laid before him, he could doubt no longer; broken and battered as it was, he recognized it for one that he had himself presented many years before to Henry Jekyll.
- His heart quailed before the enormous pyramidal shape.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en-noun)- (Shakespeare)