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Bust vs Bosom - What's the difference?

bust | bosom |

As nouns the difference between bust and bosom

is that bust is a sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders while bosom is the breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).

As verbs the difference between bust and bosom

is that bust is to break something while bosom is to enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.

As adjectives the difference between bust and bosom

is that bust is without any money, broke while bosom is in a very close relationship.

bust

English

(wikipedia bust)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) buste < (etyl) busto, probably from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
  • The breasts and upper thorax of a woman
    • Derived terms
    * busty * overbust * underbust

    Etymology 2

    From the verb .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To break something
  • (slang) To arrest for a crime
  • (slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
  • (snowboarding) An emphatic to do
  • (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
  • * 1962 , , 01:56:35
    • If Steinkamp doesn't take off that hat and stop messing around, I'm gonna bust him into a PFC.
  • (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
  • (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
    • Synonyms
    ; to arrest for a crime : nick
    Derived terms
    * bust a cap * bust a gasket * bust a move * bust a nut * bust ass cold * bust loose * bust one's ass * bust one's balls * bust one's chops * bust out * bust up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation:
    • a narcotics bust
  • (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
  • (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
  • (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (slang) without any money, broke

    • Derived terms

    * bust up/bust-up * (adjective) * buster

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs ----

    bosom

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *1611 , Bible , Authorized Version, (w) IV:
  • *:And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom'. And he put his hand into his ' bosom : and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
  • The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
  • *1844 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), (The Luck of Barry Lyndon)
  • *:my poor dear duke, in consequence of the excitement created in his august bosom by her frantic violence and grief, had a fit in which I very nigh lost him.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1932, author=(Maurice Baring)
    • , chapter=16, title= Friday's Business , passage=His uncle, a Cardinal, engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal,
  • The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
  • *1846 , (Charles Dickens), (Dombey and Son)
  • *:… Mr Toodle … was refreshing himself with tea in the bosom of his family.
  • *1861 , (George Eliot), (Silas Marner)
  • *:there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.
  • The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
  • *Bible, (w) iv.6
  • *:He put his hand into his bosom : and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
  • *1897 , (Henry James), (What Maisie Knew) :
  • *:She was always in a fearful hurry, and the lower the bosom was cut the more it was to be gathered she was wanted elsewhere.
  • (lb) A woman's breasts.
  • *
  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
  • *2003 , Martin Kelner, The Guardian , 7 April:
  • *:The prevailing look at Aintree was of a well-upholstered woman wearing an outfit about three sizes too small for her; trouser suits so tight you could not only tell if the lady had a coin in her pocket but see if it was heads or tails, and skimpy tops proclaiming proudly that bosoms are back—and this time it's personal.
  • Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
  • *(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • *:the bosom of the ocean
  • A depression round the eye of a millstone.
  • :(Knight)

    • Synonyms

    * see

    Adjective

    (-)
  • In a very close relationship.
    • bosom buddies
  • * Lieut. Creecy of the navy, who has been detailed to the aerial experiments at the fort, and who was a bosom companion of young Selfridge, was brokenhearted.'' -- Describing the death of

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Bosom up my counsel; / You'll find it wholesome.
  • To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • To happy convents bosomed deep in vines.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Stewart Edward White, title=The Claim Jumpers, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Beyond were the pines, and a rugged road, flint-edged, full of dips and rises, turns and twists, hovering on edges, or bosoming itself in deep rock-strewn cuts. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1818, author=Lucy Aikin, title=Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Those whom you feared most are now bosoming themselves in the queen's grace; and though her highness signified displeasure in outward sort, yet did she like the marrow of your book. }} (Webster 1913)

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