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Geish vs Geist - What's the difference?

geish | geist |

As nouns the difference between geish and geist

is that geish is (slang) the perineum while geist is ghost, apparition.

geish

English

Noun

(geishes)
  • (slang) The perineum.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup, year=1996, date=17 September, author=
  • QerPanGaia, title=Just got a Bike Soft Cup geish is just inside the tail of the cup. This gives me some sensations that are different from the ordinary.}}'>citation
  • * {{quote-newsgroup, year=1998, date=23 January, author=
  • Koren Ziemienski, title=Re: -I- Leaving the toilet seat up citation
  • * {{quote-newsgroup, year=1998, date=19 June, author=
  • LD6313, title=geish and frenum geish , then use a lock to make a chasity(sic) device for me. Any info would be helpfull(sic)}}'>citation

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    geist

    English

    Noun

  • Ghost, apparition.
  • *1877 , The spiritual magazine:
  • The geists' eat and drink, but only as '''geists''' — not as spirits. ' We have dined,' they say ' sumptuously.' A vapour- ... If dead men tell no tales, their ' geists will tell them, if they find opportunity.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1881 , year_published=2005 , edition=reprint , author=M.T.W. , title=Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Project Gutenberg , isbn= , page= , passage=Koerg was not slow to recognize a geist ; his knees shook, and he dared not utter a word.}}
  • *1996 , Stephen Barker, Excavations and Their Objects :
  • [...] it makes no difference whether these figures were real, corporeal beings or not, since each one, in terms of Freud's (auto) aesthetic, is a spirit, a geist , a complex function of Freud's worldview.
  • Spirit (of a group, age, era etc).
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1974 , year_published=2008 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=V. Jagannatha Panicker , title=Crucifixion of the Unborn: Underpopulated India , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Sivaji Publications , isbn= , page=54 , passage=The population that today explodes on a stagnant society with a catastrophic echo, is the geist of the times that shock our great nation into a new sense of her grandeur. }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1976 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author= , title=Colorado lawyer - Volume 5 , chapter= citation , genre=Law , publisher=Colorado Bar Association , isbn= , page=1640 , passage=However, the geist of the times following the World War was the "normalcy" of Warren G. Harding. }}
  • *1995 , Donald Pizer, The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism :
  • [...] a term badly applied, as the method is neither a historicism (the belief that each era or period has a geist , principle of identity, or a definable sense of destiny) nor new.
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  • References

    * OED, geist