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Brooch vs Roach - What's the difference?

brooch | roach |

As a noun brooch

is fallow (unseeded or uncultivated land).

As a proper noun roach is

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brooch

English

(wikipedia brooch)

Noun

(es)
  • A piece of women’s ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
  • A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.

    • Synonyms

    * breastpin

    Hypernyms

    * pin

    Verb

  • To adorn as with a brooch.

    • References

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    roach

    English

    (wikipedia roach)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) roche, of unknown origin.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A small freshwater fish in the carp family (Cyprinidae ), .

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (es)
  • (US) A cockroach.
  • (US, slang, smoking) A butt of a marijuana cigarette.
  • (UK, slang, smoking) The filter of a rolled cigarette or joint, made from card or paper.
  • (nautical) An extra curve of material added to the leech edge of a sail to increase the sail area.
  • A kind of headdress worn by some of the indigenous peoples of North America.

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