Loosey vs Loosen - What's the difference?
loosey | loosen |
(US, slang) A single cigarette, sold individually (“loose”).
* 2009 , Peter Moskos,
*:Killed Over a Loosey
*::A 30-year-old man was chased down by four women and stabbed more than 20 times early Sunday after arguing with them over a broken cigarette, sources said. To make loose.
* Francis Bacon
To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
* Dryden
To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of.
As a noun loosey
is a single cigarette, sold individually (“loose”).As a verb loosen is
to make loose.loosey
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Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(loosies)Killed Over a Loosey],[http://www.copinthehood.com/ Cop in the Hood blog, February 2, 2009:
loosen
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Verb
(en verb)- to loosen a knot
- After the Thanksgiving meal, Bill loosened his belt.
- After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening of the earth.
- It loosens his hands, and assists his understanding.
- (Francis Bacon)
