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Dusk vs Busk - What's the difference?

dusk | busk |

In intransitive terms the difference between dusk and busk

is that dusk is to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk while busk is to solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.

As an adjective dusk

is tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

dusk

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.
  • A darkish colour.
  • * Dryden
    • Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

    Synonyms

    * sunset * sundown * evenfall * smokefall * vespers

    Antonyms

    * dawn

    Hyponyms

    * gloaming * twilight

    See also

    *

    See also

    * crepuscular

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk
  • * , More Poems , XXXIII, lines 25-27
    • I see the air benighted
    And all the dusking dales,
    And lamps in England lighted,
  • To make dusk.
  • * Holland
    • After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
  • * Milton
    • A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.

    Anagrams

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    busk

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) busc, by dissimilation from buste from (etyl) busto.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
  • * Marston
    • Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk , puff verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelical.
  • (by extension) A corset.
  • * 1661 , John Donne, "To his Mistress going to Bed":
    • Off with that happy busk , which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.

    Etymology 2

    Etymology

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A kind of linen.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 557:
    • Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) busken, from (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
    • Busk you, busk you, my bonny, bonny bride. — Hamilton.
  • *
    • The watch stert up and drew their weapons bright
    And busk'd them bold to battle and to fight. — Fairfax.
  • To go; to direct one's course. [Obs.]
    • Ye might have busked you to Huntly banks. — Skelton.

    Etymology 4

    Apparently from (etyl) busquer or (etyl) buscar.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport
  • (nautical) To tack, to cruise about.
    • Related terms
    * busker

    Noun

    (nb-noun-m1)
  • a bush or shrub

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