Lurch vs Belched - What's the difference?
lurch | belched |
A sudden or unsteady movement.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
(obsolete) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
* South
(obsolete) To steal; to rob.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
* Francis Bacon
An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has been left in the lurch.
* Walpole
(belch)
To expel gas loudly from the stomach through the mouth.
* My father used to belch after having a fine meal.
To issue with spasmodic force or noise.
* Jonathan Swift
* Milton
The sound one makes when belching.
(obsolete) malt liquor
As a noun lurch
is amphibian.As a verb belched is
(belch).lurch
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(es)- the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard
- Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.
Verb
(es)- Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.
- And in the brunt of seventeen battles since / He lurched all swords of the garland.
See also
* leave someone in the lurch *Etymology 2
(etyl) (lena) lurcare.Verb
(es)- Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear.
Etymology 3
(etyl) .Noun
- Lady Blandford has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch .
Anagrams
*belched
English
Verb
(head)belch
English
Verb
(es)- Yes, we have seen the wrecked cars and the factories belching smoke and the blur of speedy automobiles crowding highways.
- I belched a hurricane of wind.
- Within the gates that now / Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame.
- (Dryden)
Synonyms
* burpNoun
(es)- (Dennis)