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Boon vs Bozon - What's the difference?

boon | bozon |

As nouns the difference between boon and bozon

is that 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 while bozon is a notional particle of stupidity.

As an adjective boon

is (obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage".

boon

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A prayer; petition.
  • * :
    • For which to God he made so many an idle boon
  • (archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a favour; benefaction; a grant; a present.
  • * :
    • Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above
  • * 1872 , (James De Mille), The Cryptogram :
    • I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?
  • A good; a blessing or benefit; a great privilege; a thing to be thankful for.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
  • An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
    • Synonyms
    * blessing * benefit
    Antonyms
    * bane

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) boon, bone, from .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage"
  • kind; bountiful; benign
  • * Milton
    • Which Nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
  • gay; merry; jovial; convivial
  • * Arbuthnot
    • a boon companion, loving his bottle
  • * Episode 16
    • --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.
    Quotations
    * Which ... Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain — * A boon companion, loving his bottle —

    Etymology 3

    From Gaelic and Irish via Scots.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    bozon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A notional particle of stupidity.
  • * 1996 , "John Novak", Re: TOR is Fucking with Us All'' (on newsgroup ''rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan )
    • Chain book sellers are, by and large, bogon and bozon emitters like nothing you've ever seen.
  • * 2000 , "Jeffrey Yu", [Fanfic] Flame Wars!!!'' (on newsgroup ''alt.startrek.vs.starwars )
    • One bozon is the exact amount of stupidity and lack of scientific knowledge needed to confuse joules with watts.
  • * 2000 , "Dirt First!", Re: Thanks for all the fish, but I'm vegetarian'' (on newsgroup ''comp.lang.perl.misc )
    • Riling people to the point of stupidity is a poor litmus test of their decency, no matter how red and blue their faces get. The result of these trolls seems only to show that the collision of large egos results in the ejection of energetic bozons .
  • * 2001 , "Kurt[MCoPS]", Re: [ot] Aiiieee! - The Four Horseman(SIC) return!'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.miniatures.warhammer )
    • There might be a superhigh concentration of bozons which will create a Stupid Hole and suck them all in.

    Related terms

    * bogon ----