Loot vs Burgle - What's the difference?
loot | burgle |
A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks.
The act of plundering.
plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
(colloquial, US) any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents
*1956 "Free Loot for Children" (LIFE Magazine, 23 April 1956,
(video games) Items dropped from defeated enemies in video games and online games.
to steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
*1833 "Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder", The asiatic Journal and monthly register for British India and its Dependencies Black, Parbury & Allen,
(video games) to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.
(chiefly, British, NZ) to commit burglary.
:* {{quote-book
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, author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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(UK, sports) To take the ball legally from an opposing player.
* {{quote-news
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, date=September 18
, author=Ben Dirs
, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia
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As verbs the difference between loot and burgle
is that loot is to steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence while burgle is (chiefly|british|nz) to commit burglary.As a noun loot
is a kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks or loot can be the act of plundering.loot
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) loet, loete .Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Attested 1788, a loan from Hindustani . The verb is from 1842. Fallows (1885) records both the noun and the verb as "Recent. Anglo-Indian". In origin only applicable to plundering in warfare. A figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950sNoun
(-)- the loot of an ancient city
p. 131)
Synonyms
* swagVerb
(en verb)p. 66.
Anagrams
* *References
*Samuel Fallows, The progressive dictionary of the English language: a supplementary wordbook to all leading dictionaries of the United States and Great Britain (1885). English terms derived from Hindi English terms derived from Urdu ----burgle
English
Verb
(burgl)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Well, I hope to goodness the house won’t be burgled during the night. }}
citation, page= , passage=And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.}}