Bora vs Borg - What's the difference?
bora | borg |
A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 650:
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* 2003 , Dalos Gaymer, “
As nouns the difference between bora and borg
is that bora is bora while borg is (slang) one who proselytises or assimilates.As a verb borg is
(slang) to assimilate rivals, via corporate acquisition or religious proselytisation.bora
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* BoraSynonyms
* burbungQuotations
* 1873, William Ridley, Report on Australian Languages and Traditions,'' in ''The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2 *: Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora . * 1885, A. L. P. Cameron, Notes on some Tribes of New South Wales,'' in ''The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 14 *: By far the most important among the ceremonies practised by the aborigines of New South Wales is the Bora , at which youths are initiated to manhood...Etymology 2
Perhaps from a dialectal form of (etyl) .Noun
(-)- When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?
Anagrams
* ----borg
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Noun
(en noun)Gotcha Force Review for GameCube”, GameFAQs:
- You'll also have to put together a team or Force of borgs' that you won from winning battles. Before battle you assemble your Force within the GF Energy Limit. Each ' borg has a cost attached to them and this GF Energy Limit is kind of like your budget.
