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Bint vs Bandage - What's the difference?

bint | bandage |

As nouns the difference between bint and bandage

is that bint is (british|pejorative) a woman, a girl while bandage is .

bint

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (British, pejorative) A woman, a girl.
  • Tell that bint to get herself in here now!
    Don't you remember the Crimbo din-din we had with the grotty Scots bint ?
  • * Monty Python's Flying Circus
  • If I went round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

    Synonyms

    * See also ----

    bandage

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
  • * 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
  • he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
  • A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
  • * 1844: (Alexander Dumas), (The Count of Monte Cristo) [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_75]
  • the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place of meeting, and that he would allow his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take off the bandage .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}

    Derived terms

    * adhesive bandage * compression bandage * gauze bandage * triangular bandage

    Verb

    (bandag)
  • To apply a bandage to something.
  • * 1879: Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=644473384&tag=Twain,+Mark,+1835-1910:+A+Tramp+Abroad,+1879&query=+bandaging&id=TwaTram]
  • ...they ate...whilst they chatted, disputed and laughed. The door to the surgeon's room stood open, meantime, but the cutting, sewing, splicing, and bandaging going on in there in plain view did not seem to disturb anyone's appetite.