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Brad vs Brandon - What's the difference?

brad | brandon |

As an adjective brad

is sudden, fast, busy, full of hurry.

As a noun brandon is

(eo-form of).

brad

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
  • * 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 5:
  • Into the middle arch of each desk silver-headed brads had been hammered to form a lion, a bear, a ram, a dove, and in the midst a flaming torch.
  • A , a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
  • Derived terms

    * bradawl

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) * (l) ----

    brandon

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • from the Gaelic Mac Breandáin .
  • transferred from the surnames; also a variant of Brendan. Popular in the U.S. in the 1980s and the 1990s.
  • A CDP in Colorado
  • Any of some towns and villages in England
  • A CDP in Florida
  • A city in Iowa
  • A city in Manitoba
  • A city in Minnesota
  • A city in Mississippi
  • A town in New York
  • A city in South Dakota
  • A town in Vermont
  • A village in Wisconsin
  • Quotations

    * 1520 The Lyfe of Saynt Brandan. Translated from Dutch.Published by Wynkyn de Worde,1483: *: Here begynneth the lyfe of Saynt Brandon'. Saynt ' Brandon , the holy man, was a monke, and borne in Yrlonde * ~1593 William Shakespeare: Richard III: Act V, Scene III : *: Sir William Brandon , you shall bear my standard.