Marty vs Betroth - What's the difference?
marty | betroth |
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* 2006 (Kate Atkinson), One Good Turn , Black Swan(2007), ISBN 9780552772440, page 248:
,or less often, of (l).
To promise to give in marriage.
* 1885 —
To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.
As a proper noun marty
is .As a verb betroth is
to promise to give in marriage.marty
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- 'Martin', Martin said.
- 'Marty'', she said, smiling at him. He didn't correct her mistake. No one had ever called him '''Marty''' before. He liked the way '' Marty' seemed a more entertaining man than he knew himself to be.
betroth
English
Verb
(en verb)- He betrothed his daughter to a distant relative.
- We loved each other at once, but she was betrothed to her guardian Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor.
- What man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? — Deuteronomy.