Bilk vs Beguile - What's the difference?
bilk | beguile |
(cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
(obsolete) A deception, a hoax.
To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
*2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 615:
*:They also perpetrate nonviolent crimes like bilking elderly couples out of their life savings and running a business with ruthless disregard for the welfare of the workforce or stakeholders.
To deceive or delude (using guile).
* , II, II, 102.
To charm, delight or captivate.
* 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
In transitive terms the difference between bilk and beguile
is that bilk is to do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone) while beguile is to charm, delight or captivate.As a noun bilk
is the spoiling of someone's score in the crib.bilk
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(en verb)beguile
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*Verb
(beguil)- I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you, in a plain accent, was a plain knave.
- I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
