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Goll vs Boll - What's the difference?

goll | boll |

As nouns the difference between goll and boll

is that goll is hand while boll is the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.

As a proper noun goll

is god.

As a verb boll is

to form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

goll

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) hand
  • * {{quote-book, year=1609, author=Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, title=Philaster, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Then give me thy Princely goll , which thus I kisse, to whom I crouch and bow; But see my royall sparke, this head-strong swarme that follow me humming like a master Bee, have I led forth their Hives, and being on wing, and in our heady flight, have seazed him shall suffer for thy wrongs. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1622, author=, title=The Noble Spanish Soldier, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Give me thy goll , thou are a noble girl. }}

    Etymology 2

    From God

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (euphemistic) God
  • * {{quote-book, year=1900, author=Edward Noyes Westcott, title=The Christmas Story from David Harum, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage='I dunno what you mean,' says Jim. 'Yes, ye do, goll darn ye!' says Dick, 'yes, ye do. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Various, title=The Best Short Stories of 1917, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=By goll ! that's all I'm good for to take on now. }} ----

    boll

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
  • * 1853 ,
    • Sometimes the slave picks down one side of a row, and back upon the other, but more usually, there is one on either side, gathering all that has blossomed leaving the unopened bolls for a succeeding picking.
  • An old Scots dry measure, equal to six bushels.

    • Derived terms

    * boll weevil * throat-boll

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
  • * Bible, Exodus ix. 31
    • The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled .
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