Gizzing vs False - What's the difference?
gizzing | false |
(dialect, archaic) To grin and laugh (at another).
* 1875 , The Gentleman's Magazine ,
* 2004 , Patricia Page, Across the Magic Line: Growing Up in Fiji ?, page 197:
(dialect, UK) To gaze
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a verb gizzing
is (dialect|archaic) to grin and laugh (at another).As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.gizzing
English
Verb
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- Nay then; but you're a gizzing at me, maister.
- She sang the flirtiest song, something about “But I knew dear, somebody else was gizzing you”.
References
*gizzing'', in ''A glossary of provincial and local words used in England? , by Francis Grose, Samuel Pegge, Pegge, Samuel, 1839, page 69. *
gizzing'', in ''The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: A-I? , by Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006, page 871. *
Journal of Arabic linguistics, page 80.
false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}