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Buoy vs Bwoy - What's the difference?

buoy | bwoy |

As nouns the difference between buoy and bwoy

is that buoy is (nautical) a float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel while bwoy is .

As a verb buoy

is to keep afloat or aloft; used with up .

buoy

English

Noun

(wikipedia buoy) (en noun)
  • (nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel.
  • A life-buoy.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep afloat or aloft; used with up .
  • To support or maintain at a high level.
  • * Burke
    • Those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title.
  • To mark with a buoy.
    • to buoy''' an anchor; to '''buoy''' or '''buoy off a channel
  • * Darwin
    • Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed.
  • To maintain or enhance enthusiasm or confidence
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban'' (in ''The Guardian , 6 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/06/england-moldova-world-cup-qualifier-matchreport]
    • It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.
    Buoyed by the huge success, they announced two other projects.
    Derived terms
    * buoy up

    Derived terms

    * buoy up * can buoy * conical buoy * bell buoy * ring buoy * life buoy * breeches buoy

    bwoy

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Charles Dudley Warner, title=Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But eesterday he guided slow My downcast Jenny, vull o' woe, An' then my little maid in black, A-walken softly on her track; An' after he'd a-turn'd ageaen, To let me goo along the leaene, He had noo little bwoy to vill His last white eaerms, an' they stood still. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell), title=North, South and Over the Sea, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And Susan, she did write back immediate an' say, 'My poor bwoy , there be a sad surprise in store for you .' }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1994, date=November 18, author=Rosalind Cummings, title=Hip Hop Godfather, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Then comes the Stones' "Miss You"; on cue, the crowd yells in unison, "What's da matter wich you bwoy !" }}