Eric vs Sperm - What's the difference?
eric | sperm |
A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.
* 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess , Faber & Faber 1999, p. 18:
(uncountable) Semen; the generative substance of male animals.
*, II.12:
(cytology) The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon.
* 2012 , Sarah Whitehouse, The Guardian , 13 Apr 2012:
(chemistry) Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti.
Imperative of (l)
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As a proper noun eric
is , cognate to eric.As a noun sperm is
(uncountable) semen; the generative substance of male animals.eric
English
Noun
(en noun)- The court-poets of Wales [...] could demand an eric of ‘nine cows, and nine-score pence of money besides’.
References
* OED 2nd edition 1989Anagrams
*sperm
English
(wikipedia sperm)Noun
- Other Nations there are, that never have use of fire; Others, whose sperme is of a blacke colour.
- Seeing the two little moving cells – the result of her egg and Luke's sperm – was incredible, and two very long weeks later the clinic confirmed I was pregnant.
