Keister vs Leisure - What's the difference?
keister | leisure |
(slang) The buttocks.
(slang, dated) A safe, a strongbox.
*1953 , Richard S. Prather, Too many crooks ,
(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 ,
*: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.
Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
Time free from work or duties.
* Sir W. Temple
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 11
* 1908 , William David Ross (translator), Aristotle,
Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
* Dryden
As nouns the difference between keister and leisure
is that keister is (slang) the buttocks while leisure is freedom provided by the cessation of activities.keister
English
Alternative forms
*keesterNoun
(en noun)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 ?"
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leisure
English
Noun
- The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.
- Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
- This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure .
- He sighed, and had no leisure more to say.