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Kith vs Kim - What's the difference?

kith | kim |

As nouns the difference between kith and kim

is that kith is (obsolete) friends and acquaintances while kim is pincers, clamp.

kith

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (obsolete) friends and acquaintances
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date=2000-08-03 , year= , first= , last= , author=Michael Kelly , authorlink= , title=New Hope For Nice Guys , site=Orlando Sentinel citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2013-04-06 , passage=The demography-crossing thing that undergirds this election year, I think, is a strong, broad desire to punish Clinton and his kith with a denial of further power. }}

    Derived terms

    * kith and kin * kithless

    See also

    * kin * kinfolk

    kim

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Gim (Korean surname )

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.
  • * 1901 , Chapter 1
    • The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim ’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
  • used since 1940s, a short form of Kimberly/Kimberley.
  • * 1926 , Show Boat , Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
    • Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. - - - It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born .
  • * 1991 , Mao II , Viking, ISBN 0670839043, page 16
    • It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim'. She has known girls named '''Kim''' since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain ' Kims .
  • ), the most common Korean surname.