Busy vs Buys - What's the difference?
busy | buys |
Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
* Shakespeare
Engaged in another activity or by someone else.
Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
Officious; meddling.
* 1603 , , IV. ii. 130:
To make somebody busy , to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.
* On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
To rush somebody.
A police officer.
Buys is a anagram of busy.
As verbs the difference between busy and buys
is that busy is to make somebody busy, to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied while buys is third-person singular of buy.As nouns the difference between busy and buys
is that busy is {{cx|slang|UK|Liverpool|derogatory|lang=en}} A police officer while buys is plural of lang=en.As an adjective busy
is crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.busy
English
Adjective
(er)- a busy street
- To-morrow is a busy day.
- The director cannot see you now, he's busy .
- Her telephone has been busy all day.
- She is too busy to have time for riddles.
- Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
- I will be hanged if some eternal villain, / Some busy and insinuating rogue, / Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, / Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else.