Grippe vs Cling - What's the difference?
grippe | cling |
Influenza, the flu.(w)
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*:"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe', but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the '''grippe , and now moaned all day: "''Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir! "
Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.
* 1908 , , Hostages to Momus :
adherence; attachment; devotion
* Milton
(senseid)To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.
* Mrs. Hemans
To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films.
To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.
* Jonathan Swift
To cause to dry up or wither.
* Shakespeare
(figurative, with preposition to) to be fond of, to feel strongly about
English irregular verbs
As verbs the difference between grippe and cling
is that grippe is while cling is (senseid)to hold very tightly, as to not fall off.As a noun cling is
fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.grippe
English
Alternative forms
* gripNoun
(-)Derived terms
* grippySee also
* catarrh * cold * Spanish fever ----cling
English
Noun
(en noun)- Antelope steaks and fried liver to begin on, and venison cutlets with chili con carne and pineapple fritters, and then some sardines and mixed pickles; and top it off with a can of yellow clings and a bottle of beer.
- A more tenacious cling to worldly respects.
Verb
- Seaweed clung to the anchor.
- And what hath life for thee / That thou shouldst cling to it thus?
- I clung legs as close to his side as I could.
- If thou speak'st false, / Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, / Till famine cling thee.