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Inmate vs Grypsera - What's the difference?

inmate | grypsera |

As a noun inmate

is a person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).

As a proper noun grypsera is

a non-standard dialect of polish with elements of other languages, used traditionally by recidivist prison inmates, that evolved in the nineteenth century in the areas of the russian partition.

inmate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient)
  • A person who occupies or dwells within a dwelling-house. The word came to be used to refer to temporary inhabitants such as guests in a hotel, students in an on-campus dormitory, patients in a hospital, or prisoners.

    • Usage notes

    Perhaps around 1970, television journalists began to use the word as a euphemism for "prisoner", and today perhaps many young people cannot remember that it ever had any other meaning.

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    grypsera

    English

    (wikipedia Grypsera)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A non-standard dialect of Polish with elements of other languages, used traditionally by recidivist prison inmates, that evolved in the nineteenth century in the areas of the Russian partition.