Louse vs Blouse - What's the difference?
louse | blouse |
A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Phthiraptera .
(colloquial, dated, not usually used in plural form) A contemptible person; one who has recently taken an action considered deceitful or indirectly harmful.
To remove lice from the body of a person or animal; to delouse.
An outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt and reaches from the neck to the waist or below. Nowadays, in colloquial use, blouse refers almost always to a woman's shirt that buttons down the front.
(military) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
To hang a garment in loose folds.
(military) To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).
* 1989 , Bernard C. Nalty, Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military , page 311
As verbs the difference between louse and blouse
is that louse is to remove lice from the body of a person or animal; to delouse while blouse is .As a noun louse
is a small parasitic wingless insect of the order phthiraptera .louse
English
(wikipedia louse)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (insect) (North America) cootie * (contemptible person) maggot, wormDerived terms
* body louse * booklouse * crab louse * head louse * louser * lousy * pubic louse * sea louse * three skips of a louseVerb
(lous)Synonyms
* delouseblouse
English
(wikipedia blouse)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* deblouseVerb
(blous)- An anonymous black soldier summed up his feelings by declaring, "If I fail to blouse my boots, or [if I] wear an Afro, I get socked. "