Bitey vs Both - What's the difference?
bitey | both |
(informal) inclined to bite.
* 2005 , Tom Widdicombe, Be with Your Horse: Getting to the Heart of Horsemanship
* 2006 , Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time
Each of the two; one and the other.
* (Bible), (w) xxi. 27
* (1678-1751)
*
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=
, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (obsolete) Each of more than two.
* (Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
As an adjective bitey
is (informal) inclined to bite.As a determiner both is
each of the two; one and the other.As a conjunction both is
including both (used with and).bitey
English
Adjective
(er)- So when someone tells you their little trick for dealing with a bitey horse, just remember that that is what it is — a little trick.
- It has all the beauty of an idyllic tropical island without any of the nasty, bitey stuff.
both
English
Alternative forms
* bothe (archaic)Determiner
(en determiner)- Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
- He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear both , because he is prepared for both.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
- Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound.
- He prayeth well who loveth well both man and bird and beast.
