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Maypole vs Maytide - What's the difference?

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Maytide is a related term of maypole.



As nouns the difference between maypole and maytide

is that maypole is a pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day while Maytide is the spring month of May.

maypole

English

Noun

(wikipedia maypole) (en noun)
  • A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.
  • (euphemistic) A penis, especially a large one.
  • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , and now, disengag'd from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant.}}

    maytide

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The spring month of May.
  • ''The Maytide is a time of natural merriment and Marian devotion on the Catholic countryside

    Synonyms

    * Maytime

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