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Gaon vs Gawn - What's the difference?

gaon | gawn |

As nouns the difference between gaon and gawn

is that gaon is honorary title for a Jewish scholar who is noted for his wisdom and knowledge of the Talmud while gawn is a small tub or lading vessel.

As a verb gawn is

eye dialect spelling of certain regional pronunciations of going.

gaon

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Honorary title for a Jewish scholar who is noted for his wisdom and knowledge of the Talmud.
  • In modern usage, a genius.

    • Quotations

    * 1991, Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=5mR5jX70oqwC&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&sig=efbu3LMM7kVUrIzfWghTlqOeIXQ] *: The Gaon' also was distressed by the veneration the Hasidim accorded their rabbinic leaders, men whom the ' Gaon generally regarded as ignoramuses. * 1996, Roger Friedland, Richard Hecht, To Rule Jerusalem [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=h27UQhGY9nwC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&sig=f-awfG-HhWgq48JD6okq8b_8Vp8] *: Like the hasidim, he too refused the title of rabbi, adopting the ancient title of Gaon. * 1997, Moshe Gil, A History of Palestine [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=M0wUKoMJeccC&pg=PA531&lpg=PA531&sig=ffm2drYu_SPO-Cgn9eM32oW2rhM] *: The Gaon' also mentions a letter he has received from ?asan as-??q?l? (al-??q?la, the ancient Aramaic name for K?fa) undoubtedly one of the emigrants from Iraq to Egypt whom the ' Gaon knew.

    See also

    * iluy *

    Anagrams

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    gawn

    English

    Etymology 1

    Corrupted from (gallon).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A small tub or lading vessel.
    • (Johnson)
    (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 2

    Corrupted from (going)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (eye dialect) Eye dialect spelling of certain regional pronunciations of going.
  • *1841 , Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, The Inheritance , page 8:
    • I'm no used to your grandees, and I'm no gawn' to begin to learn fashionable mainners noo — so dinna ask me — I'm no ' gawn to mak a fule o' mysel' at this time o' day.
  • *2007 , Jacqueline Wales, When the Crow Sings , page 110:
    • Agnes came in dressed in nightgown and curlers. “Are we still gawn' to the church bingo the night? I told Bessie I'd be ' gawn .”
  • *2014 , Charles R. Allen, 99 Cent Adventure Time Stories: The House of Weird Sleep , page 3:
    • “Ah'm gawn' to tear yore skin off with this here whip,” came the guttural voice from behind him. “Then ah'm ' gawn to rub salt in the cuts an' leave you hyar on the floor.”
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