Kevin vs Joy - What's the difference?
kevin | joy |
. It first became popular outside Ireland in the mid-twentieth century.
(British, pejorative, slang) A working-class male.
A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.
* , chapter=10
, title= Anything that causes such a feeling.
* Bible, 1 Thess. ii. 20
* Keats
(obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.
* Spenser
* Dryden
To feel joy, to rejoice.
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*:for oftymes or this oure lord shewed hym vnto good men and vnto good knyghtes in lykenes of an herte But I suppose from hens forth ye shalle see no more / and thenne they Ioyed moche / and dwelled ther alle that day / And vpon the morowe whan they had herde masse / they departed and commaunded the good man to god
*1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18:
*:I swore readily enough to this and he joyed with exceeding joy and embraced me round the neck while love for him possessed my whole heart.
(archaic) To enjoy.
*1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i.2:
*:For from the time that Scudamour her bought, / In perilous fight, she neuer ioyed day.
*Milton
*:Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss.
(obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate.
*Dryden
*:Joy us of our conquest.
*Prior
*:To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe.
(obsolete) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
*Shakespeare
*:Neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits.
As proper nouns the difference between kevin and joy
is that kevin is , a less common spelling of kevin while joy is .kevin
English
Proper noun
(Kevins)Quotations
* 1990 Ruth Rendell: Going Wrong ISBN 0091743001 page 157: *: "Guy," he said. He said it slowly and with a certain puzzlement. He said it again, thoughtfully, as if it were a name of someone he had known long ago but couldn't quite place. "Guy. Yes - don't you find it difficult being called that? I mean, if Nora hadn't said, I'd have put you down as a Kevin , or a Barry. Yes, Barry would suit you." *: He looked like an innocent child, smiling, wide-eyed, his cheeks plump and rosy, defying the object of his insults to take offence. * 1996 Frank McCourt: Angela's Ashes . Harper Collins Publishers. ISBN 0 00 649840 X page 203: *: They sit by the fire smoking and talking about names. Mam says she likes the names Kevin' and Sean but Bridey says, Ah no, there's too many of them in Limerick. Jesus, Angela, if you stuck your head out of the door and called , ' Kevin or Sean, come in for your tea, you'd have half o' Limerick running to your door.See also
* Sharon ----joy
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(wikipedia joy)Noun
- a child's joy on Christmas morning
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
- Ye are our glory and joy .
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
- Such joy made Una, when her knight she found.
- The roofs with joy resound.
