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Keister vs Leister - What's the difference?

keister | leister |

As nouns the difference between keister and leister

is that keister is (slang) the buttocks while leister is a spear armed with three or more barbed prongs for catching fish.

keister

English

Alternative forms

*keester

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang) The buttocks.
  • (slang, dated) A safe, a strongbox.
  • *1953 , Richard S. Prather, Too many crooks , page 100
    • ? " [...] The four hundred's yours to take a keister for me. Any cash you find in the box is yours."
    ? "Four hundred, huh? Don't seem like much. Think there'd be anything in the keister ?"
  • (slang) A suitcase; a satchel.
  • *1942 , Billboard, 29 Aug 1942 — page 63
  • *:Tripods, keister and loud talk don't make a pitchman any more than do fine feathers make fine birds.
  • *1963 , Grace Snyder, Nellie Irene Snyder Yost, No Time on My Hands , page 37
  • *:Sometimes Mama was too busy to make the daily rounds of the draws and pockets, in which case she gave us the keister — an old leather satchel used, in its better days to carry the baby's "didies" in — and sent us to bring in the eggs.

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    * English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    leister

    English

    Alternative forms

    * lister

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a spear armed with three or more barbed prongs for catching fish

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