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Gust vs Gull - What's the difference?

gust | gull |

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)
  • A strong, abrupt rush of wind.
  • Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion etc.).
  • (Francis Bacon)
    Synonyms
    * windflaw

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To blow in gusts.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) gustus ‘taste’. For the verb, compare (etyl) (lena) gustare, (etyl) gustare, (etyl) gustar.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) The physiological faculty of taste.
  • Relish, enjoyment, appreciation.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • An ox will relish the tender flesh of kids with as much gust and appetite.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust.
  • * 1942': ‘Yes, indeed,’ said Sava with solemn '''gust . — Rebecca West, ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 1050)
  • Intellectual taste; fancy.
  • * Dryden
  • A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To taste.
  • (obsolete) To have a relish for.
  • Anagrams

    * * ----

    gull

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) gulle, ultimately from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
  • Synonyms
    * (seabird) mew, seagull

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from an obsolete term

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
  • * 1599 ,
  • BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull , but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.
  • One easily cheated; a dupe.
  • Synonyms
    * (dupe) See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deceive or cheat.
  • * Dryden
  • The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.
  • * Coleridge
  • I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene I, verse 162-165
  • 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
  • (US, slang) To mislead.
  • (US, slang) To trick and defraud.
  • Derived terms
    * gullible * gullibility

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