Hazel vs Hustle - What's the difference?
hazel | hustle |
A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus , bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
The nut of the hazel tree.
The wood of a hazelnut tree.
A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
(mining) freestone
Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)
To rush or hurry.
* 1922 , (Sinclair Lewis), Chapter 12
To con or deceive; especially financially.
To bundle, to stow something quickly.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
To sell sex, to work as a pimp.
To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
(informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.
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As a proper noun hazel
is from the plant or colour hazel popular in the us at the turn of the 20th century.As a verb hustle is
to rush or hurry.As a noun hustle is
a state of busy activity.hazel
English
(wikipedia hazel)Noun
(en-noun)- (Raymond)
Quotations
* , Scene I *: Kate, like the hazel -twig, *: Is straight and slender, and as brown in hue *: As hazel nuts, and sweeter than the kernels.Synonyms
* (nut) filbert, hazelnutAdjective
Derived terms
* hazel grouse * hazelnut * witch hazel/wych hazelSee also
* lamb's tails * sweet gum * ----hustle
English
Verb
- I'll have to hustle to get there on time.
- Men in dairy lunches were hustling' to gulp down the food which cooks had ' hustled to fry
- The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.
- There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
- There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.