Bogon vs Boon - What's the difference?
bogon | boon |
(slang) The imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon.
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(Internet, slang) An invalid Internet Protocol packet, particularly one sent from an address that is not in use.
(obsolete) A prayer; petition.
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(archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a favour; benefaction; a grant; a present.
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* 1872 , (James De Mille), The Cryptogram :
A good; a blessing or benefit; a great privilege; a thing to be thankful for.
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(obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage"
kind; bountiful; benign
* Milton
gay; merry; jovial; convivial
* Arbuthnot
* Episode 16
The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between bogon and boon
is that bogon is (slang) the imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon while boon is (obsolete) a prayer; petition or boon can be the woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.As an adjective boon is
(obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage".bogon
English
Noun
(en noun)- Chain book sellers are, by and large, bogon and bozon emitters like nothing you've ever seen.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "bogon")Derived terms
* bogon filterSee also
* bogosity * cluonAnagrams
* * ----boon
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- For which to God he made so many an idle boon
- Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above
- I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?
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Synonyms
* blessing * benefitAntonyms
* baneEtymology 2
From (etyl) boon, bone, from .Adjective
(-)- Which Nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
- a boon companion, loving his bottle
- --No, Mr Bloom repeated again, I wouldn't personally repose much trust in that boon companion of yours who contributes the humorous element, if I were in your shoes.