Gust vs Gull - What's the difference?
gust | gull |
A strong, abrupt rush of wind.
Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion etc.).
(archaic) The physiological faculty of taste.
Relish, enjoyment, appreciation.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Alexander Pope
* 1942': ‘Yes, indeed,’ said Sava with solemn '''gust . — Rebecca West, ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 1050)
Intellectual taste; fancy.
* Dryden
(slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
* 1599 ,
One easily cheated; a dupe.
To deceive or cheat.
* Dryden
* Coleridge
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene I, verse 162-165
(US, slang) To mislead.
(US, slang) To trick and defraud.
As nouns the difference between gust and gull
is that gust is pleasure while gull is (soccer) a player, supporter or other person connected with.gust
English
Etymology 1
Apparently from (etyl) gustr , though not recorded before Shakespeare.Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* windflawEtymology 2
From (etyl) gustus ‘taste’. For the verb, compare (etyl) (lena) gustare, (etyl) gustare, (etyl) gustar.Noun
(-)- An ox will relish the tender flesh of kids with as much gust and appetite.
- Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust.
- A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients.
Anagrams
* * ----gull
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) gulle, ultimately from (etyl) .Synonyms
* (seabird) mew, seagullEtymology 2
Perhaps from an obsolete termNoun
(en noun)- BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull , but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.
Synonyms
* (dupe) See alsoVerb
(en verb)- The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.
- I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.
- speak your curses out
- Against me, who would sooner crush and grind
- A brace of toads, than league with them to oppress
- An innocent lady, gull an Emperor