Gasp vs Gaspy - What's the difference?
gasp | gaspy |
A short, sudden intake of breath.
(British, slang): A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper).
To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.
To breathe laboriously or convulsively.
* Lloyd
To speak in a breathless manner.
To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.
* Spenser
Resembling or characterised by gasps.
* 1894 , Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 6, author=Mike Albo, title=The Department of Just Right, work=New York Times
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As a noun gasp
is sigh, yawn; the act of sighing.As an adjective gaspy is
resembling or characterised by gasps.gasp
English
Noun
(en noun)- The audience gave a gasp of astonishment
- I'm popping out for a gasp .
Verb
(en verb)- The audience gasped as the magician disappeared.
- We were all gasping when we reached the summit.
- She gasps and struggles hard for life.
- The old man gasped his last few words.
- I'm gasping for a cup of tea.
- Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain.
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Anagrams
* *gaspy
English
Adjective
(er)- Then his eyes began to spread and his breath to come out kinder gaspy like, and he says: "Ger-reat Scott, it's the LONGITUDE!"
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