Moister vs Mister - What's the difference?
moister | mister |
(moist)
Slightly wet; characterised by the presence of moisture, not dry; damp.
* 1937 , "Modernist Miracle", Time , 1 Nov 1937:
* 2011 , Dominic Streatfeild, The Guardian , 7 Jan 2011:
Of eyes: tearful, wet with tears.
* 1974 , "Mitchell and Stans: Not Guilty", Time , 6 Dec 1974:
Of weather, climate etc.: rainy, damp.
* 2008 , Graham Harvey, The Guardian , 8 Sep 2008:
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(obsolete) Watery, liquid, fluid.
* 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia :
(medicine) Characterised by the presence of pus, mucus etc.
(colloquial) Sexually lubricated (of the vagina); sexually aroused, turned on (of a woman).
* 2008 , Marcia King-Gamble, Meet Phoenix , p. 168:
Title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also (often parent to young child) referring to a man whose name is unknown.
* 1855 , George Musalas Colvocoresses, Four Years in the Government Exploring Expedition , J. M. Fairchild & co., page 358:
* 1908 , Jack Brand, By Wild Waves Tossed: An Ocean Love Story , The McClure Company, page 90:
(obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
A kind, type of.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
(obsolete) Need (of something).
* :
(obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.
* :
(obsolete, impersonal) To be necessary; to matter.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
A device that makes or sprays mist.
As an adjective moister
is (moist).As a noun mister is
mister (title conferred on an adult male), especially when referring to anglophones.moister
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*moist
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Joseph Smith, a diffident, conscientious young man with moist hands and an awkward, absent-minded manner, was head gardener at Wotton Vanborough.
- "The other car didn't explode," continues Shujaa. "The explosives were a bit moist . They had been stored in a place that was too humid."
- Eyes moist , he hugged one of his attorneys and later said: "I feel like I've been reborn."
- With its mild, moist climate, Britain is uniquely placed to grow good grass.
- Pituita'', or phlegm, is a cold and moist humour, begotten of the colder parts of the ''chylus […].
- Some being of the opinion of Thales, that water was the originall of all things, thought it most equall to submit unto the principle of putrefaction, and conclude in a moist relentment.
- He slid a finger in me, checking to make sure I was moist and ready for him.
Synonyms
* dank * damp *Anagrams
*mister
English
Etymology 1
Unaccented variant ofNoun
(en noun)- You may sit here, mister .
- Go and ask that mister if you can get your ball out of his garden.
- Fine day to see sights, gentlemen. Well, misters , here's the railing round the ground, and there's the paling round the tomb, eight feet deep, six feet long, and three feet wide.
- There's only three misters aboard this ship, or, rather, there's only two.
Coordinate terms
* (title of adult male) master, mistress, , DoctorEtymology 2
From (etyl) mester, (meister) (et al.), from (etyl) misterium, a medieval conflation of (etyl) .David Wallace,Chaucerian polity: absolutist lineages and associational forms in England and Italy, Stanford University Press, 1997
Noun
(en noun)- The Redcrosse knight toward him crossed fast, / To weet, what mister wight was so dismayd.
- And thenne the grene knyghte kneled doune / and dyd hym homage with his swerd / thenne said the damoisel me repenteth grene knyghte of your dommage / and of youre broders dethe the black knyghte / for of your helpe I had grete myster / For I drede me sore to passe this forest / Nay drede you not sayd the grene knyghte / for ye shal lodge with me this nyghte / and to morne I shalle helpe you thorou this forest
- It was by Merlyns auyse said the knyghte / As for hym sayd kynge Carados / I wylle encountre with kynge bors / and ye wil rescowe me whan myster is / go on said they al / we wil do all that we may
Verb
(en verb)- As for my name, it mistreth not to tell; / Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well.
Etymology 3
.Noun
(en noun)- Odessa D. uses a mister Sunday to fight the 106-degree heat at a NASCAR race in Fontana, California.