Paspy vs Gaspy - What's the difference?
paspy | gaspy |
A kind of minuet, in triple time, of French origin, popular in the reign of (Queen Elizabeth I) and for some time after.
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 paspy
is a kind of minuet, in triple time, of french origin, popular in the reign of (queen elizabeth i) and for some time after.As an adjective gaspy is
resembling or characterised by gasps.paspy
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Noun
(paspies)- (Percy Smith)
Synonyms
* passing measure * passymeasure (Webster 1913)gaspy
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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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