Broil vs Barney - What's the difference?
broil | barney |
To cook by direct, radiant heat.
To expose to great heat.
To be exposed to great heat.
(archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, verses 1-2
* Burke
* 1840 , Robert Chambers, ?William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist E.E. Barney (fl. 1877-79).
As verbs the difference between broil and barney
is that broil is to cook by direct, radiant heat or broil can be to cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil while barney is (uk|australia|cockney rhyming slang) to argue, to quarrel.As nouns the difference between broil and barney
is that broil is food prepared by broiling or broil can be (archaic) a brawl; a rowdy disturbance while barney is (uk|australia|cockney rhyming slang) a noisy argument or barney can be (united states|pejorative slang) an insult directed at a police officer, usually by someone who believes the officer to be inferior or overzealous.broil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) broillen, . (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- So, I am safe emerged from these broils ! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
- I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please.
- Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.
Anagrams
*barney
Translingual
Proper noun
(mul-proper noun)External links
*Author query of the International Plant Names Index----
