Swag vs Curtain - What's the difference?
swag | curtain |
(intransitive, and, transitive) To sway; to cause to sway.
To droop; to sag.
* Palsgrave
To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 29, author=Cathy Horyn, title=In Paris, a Nod to Old Masters, work=New York Times
, passage=Dior wouldn’t be Dior without the swagged ball gown
A loop of draped fabric.
* 2005 , , Bloomsbury Publishing, page 438:
A low point or depression in land; especially , a place where water collects.
* 1902', D. G. Simmons, "The Influence of Contaminated Water in the Development of Diseases", ''The American Practitioner and News'', ' 34 : 182.
(slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
* 2009 , Mark Anthony Archer, Exile , page 119
(countable) The booty of a burglar or thief; a boodle.
* 1838 , :
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword * 1971 November 22, Frank E. Emerson, “They Can Get It For You BETTER Than Wholesale”, New York Magazine , page 38
(uncountable) Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, such as those handed out at conventions.
* 2011 , Mark Henry, Battle of the Network Zombies
(countable, Australia, dated) The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.
(countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable in to an integral backpack.
(countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).
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(Australia) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
* 1880 , James Coutts Crawford, Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia ,
* 1976 , Pembroke Arts Club, The Anglo-Welsh Review ,
* 2006 , , Issue 23,
* 2011 , Penelope Debelle, Red Silk: The Life of Elliott Johnston QC ,
; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.
A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
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A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
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, chapter=2 (label) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
* , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220:
Death.
* 1979 , (Monty Python), (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)
(label) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
A flag; an ensign.
As nouns the difference between swag and curtain
is that swag is scientific/speculative/sophisticated/stupid wild-ass or swag can be while curtain is a piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc to offer privacy and keep out light.As a verb curtain is
to cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.swag
English
Etymology 1
Probably from (etyl)Verb
(swagg)- I swag' as a fat person's belly ' swaggeth as he goeth.
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Noun
(en noun)- He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows.
- Whenever the muddy water would accumulate in the swag' the water from the well in question would become muddy After the water in the ' swag had all disappeared through the sink-hole the well water would again become clear.
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
(swagger).Noun
(-)- Now this dude got swag , and he was pushing up on me but, it wasn't like we was kicking it or anything!”
Etymology 3
From British thieves? slang.Noun
(en noun)- “It?s all arranged about bringing off the swag , is it?” asked the Jew. Sikes nodded.
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- He was on his way to call on other dealers to check out their swag and to see if he could trade away some of his leftover odds and ends.
- “Make sure to take some swag on your way out!” I called.
He stooped a bit in mid-trot and snatched a small gold bag out of the basket at the door. The contents were mostly shit, a few drink tickets to the Well of Souls, VIP status at Convent, that sort of thing.
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- New Zealand wasted a swag of chances to lose their opening women?s hockey World Cup match.
Derived terms
* swaggie * swagmanVerb
page 259,
- He told me that times had been bad at Invercargill, and that he had started for fresh pastures, had worked his passage up as mate in a small craft from the south, and, arriving in Port Underwood, had swagged his calico tent over the hill, and was now living in it, pitched in the manuka scrub.
page 158,
- That such a man was swagging in the Victoria Bush at the age of fifty-one requires explanation.
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- The plot is straightforward. A swagman is settling down by a billabong after a hard day?s swagging .
page 21,
- Over the Christmas of 1939, just three months after Britain and Australia had declared war on Germany, they went swagging together for a week and slept out under the stars in the Adelaide Hills, talking, walking and reading.
Derived terms
* swag itEtymology 4
Noun
(en noun)- I can take a swag at the answer, but it may not be right.
Anagrams
*curtain
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
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- Captain Rense'', beleagring the Citie of ''Errona for us,.
- For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.
- (Shakespeare)