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Bitter vs Booze - What's the difference?

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Bitter is a related term of booze.


As nouns the difference between bitter and booze

is that bitter is (usually in the plural bitters) a liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic while booze is (slang) any alcoholic beverage.

As verbs the difference between bitter and booze

is that bitter is to make bitter while booze is (slang) to drink alcohol.

As an adjective bitter

is having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).

bitter

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
  • :
  • *
  • *:Long after his cigar burnt bitter , he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
  • Harsh, piercing or stinging.
  • :
  • *1999 , (Neil Gaiman), Stardust , p.31 (Perennial paperback edition)
  • *:It was at the end of February,.
  • Hateful or hostile.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (w) iii. 19
  • *:Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
  • Cynical and resentful.
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    • Usage notes

    * The one-word comparative form (bitterer) and superlative form (bitterest) exist, but are less common than their two-word counterparts (term) and (term).

    Derived terms

    * bitter pill to swallow

    See also

    * bitter end

    Antonyms

    * (cynical and resentful) optimistic

    Synonyms

    * (cynical and resentful) jaded

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
  • * 1773 , Oliver Goldsmith,
    • Thus I begin: "All is not gold that glitters,
    "Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters .
  • A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
  • (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.

    • Derived terms

    * brought up to a bitter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make bitter.
    • (Wolcott)
    ----

    booze

    English

    (wikipedia booze)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang) Any alcoholic beverage.

    • Synonyms

    * grog; see also

    Derived terms

    * booze bus * booze can * booze cruise * boozehound * boozer

    See also

    * piss * plonk

    Verb

    (booz)
  • (slang) To drink alcohol.
    • We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.
  • * Hugh Reginald Haweis
    • This is better than boozing in public houses.