Broad vs Girl - What's the difference?
broad | girl |
Wide in extent or scope.
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, title= Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
* Bishop Porteus
Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained.
* John Locke
Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
* D. Daggett
* E. Everett
Plain; evident.
Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
* Shakespeare
(dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.
(of an accent) Strongly regional.
(Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
(dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
(US) A woman or girl.
(UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
A young female human; (in contrast to boy ), a female child or young adult.
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, title= Any woman, regardless of her age. (see usage notes)
A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)
(uncommon) A queen (the playing card.)* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)
(colloquial) A term of endearment. (see usage notes)
A girlfriend.
A daughter.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A roebuck two years old.
(US, slang) Cocaine, especially in powder form.
* 1969 , Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life , Cash Money Content (2011), ISBN 9781451617139,
* 1977 , Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle , Holloway House (1987), ISBN 0870673661,
* 2005 , K'wan, Hoodlum , St. Martin's Press (2005), ISBN 0312333080,
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As an adjective broad
is wide in extent or scope.As a noun broad
is (dated) a prostitute, a woman of loose morals.As a proper noun girl is
(astronomy) a chinese constellation located near aquarius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the black turtle.broad
English
Adjective
(er)- three feet broad
- the broad expanse of ocean
Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?, passage=Julia Farrington, head of arts at Index on Censorship, argues that extra powers to ban violent videos online will "end up too broad and open to misapplication, which would damage freedom of expression".}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
- broad and open day
- a broad mixture of falsehood
- The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.
- in a broad , statesmanlike, and masterly way
- a broad hint
- as broad and general as the casing air
- a broad''' compliment; a '''broad''' joke; '''broad humour
Antonyms
* * (Regarding body width) * (Not palatalized)Derived terms
* breadth * broaden * broad across the beam * broad in the beam * broadscale * broad strokes * broadsword * broad church * broadcloth * broad agreementNoun
(en noun)- Who was that broad I saw you with?
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* See also * See also * See alsoSee also
*Anagrams
* * * ----girl
English
Noun
(en noun)Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
page 43:
- She had taught me to snort girl , and almost always when I came to her pad, there would be thin sparkling rows of crystal cocaine on the glass top of the cocktail table.
page 175:
- Elijah nodded congenially to the early evening regulars in the Afro Lounge, headed straight for the telephone hung midway between the mens and womens, his nose smarting from a couple thick lines of recently snorted girl .
page 185:
- After about an hour or two of half-ass sex and snorting girl , Honey was zoned out. She flexed her still numb fingers, trying to find a warmth that didn't seem to come. Cocaine always made her numb.