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Lightweight vs Fichu - What's the difference?

lightweight | fichu |

As nouns the difference between lightweight and fichu

is that lightweight is (boxing) a boxer in a weight division having a maximum limit of 135 pounds for professionals and 132 pounds for amateurs while fichu is a woman's lightweight triangular scarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front.

As an adjective lightweight

is lacking in earnestness, ability, or profundity.

lightweight

English

(wikipedia lightweight)

Alternative forms

* light-weight

Noun

(en noun)
  • (boxing) A boxer in a weight division having a maximum limit of 135 pounds for professionals and 132 pounds for amateurs.
  • (bodybuilding) A competitive weight division between bantamweight and welterweight, with specific weights varying by organization.
  • One of little consequence or ability.
  • A person who cannot handle their drink.
  • A political candidate with little chance of winning

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking in earnestness, ability, or profundity
  • Having less than average weight
  • Lacking in strength
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 13 , author=Sam Lyon , title=Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=With the Gunners far too lightweight in midfield, Mikel Arteta dropped back into a deeper-lying role. This freed Yossi Benayoun to go further forward, a move that helped forge a rare Arsenal chance on 30 minutes when the Israeli released Van Persie, only for the Dutchman's snap-shot to be tipped around the post.}}
  • (computing) Having a small footprint or performance impact

    • fichu

    English

    (wikipedia fichu)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A woman's lightweight triangular scarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front
  • * 1789, The Ladies Magazine , January 1789, "Fashionable Dresses: The First Lady's Dress", page 55
    • On the neck—an ample Fichu , very prominent, the point of which behind goes under the jacket and the ends before go under the stomacher
  • * 1868 London Society , vol. XIII, "Fashion at Longchamps", page 407
    • The fichu proper, introduced by Marie Antoinette, not before the décolletée style of toilette made it positively necessary, was nothing more than a lace kerchief worn crossed over the shoulders.
  • * 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 93
    • She wore a dress of filmy white stuff, embroidered with bunches of pale mauve thistles, a full fichu', and a large mauve hat with wide mauve ribbons, tied in front in a large knot where the ' fichu was crossed on her bosom.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 285:
    • Assistant Van admired her elegant slenderness, the gray tailor-made suit, the smoky fichu and as it wafted away, her long white neck.
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