Obeast vs Oblast - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between obeast and oblast

is that obeast is (slang) a contemptuous and very obese or overweight person while oblast is (a region or province in some countries).

obeast

English

Noun

(en noun)

(slang) A contemptuous and very obese or overweight person

* 1981 , New York Magazine , Jan 12, 1981, page 107

The doctor told me I was a little obeast .

* 2006 , Norman Green, Shooting Dr. Jack , page 235

“There's gotta be a ladder up there, and I can't hoist you, you's obeast .”

* 2009 , Harry F. Dahms, Nature, Knowledge and Negation , page 323

Fast Food Nation, where, as I overheard one new mother in my town recently note, children are likely to grow up ''obeast '

(religion) A intelligent demonic influence or entity

* 2006 , Oneal McQuick, Fasting & Prayers , page 23

I mentioned something of intelligent nature created by devils called an obeast or called that by the blues; in the article, “Real Weapons of Mass Destruction.”

* 2007 , Orlando Constantine, Angels, Let's Talk , page 39

For an obeast in a human, the human being dead, have the abilities that Christ displayed upon resurrection.

* 2008 , Orlando Constantine, Angels, Let's Talk 2008-2009 Follow Up Notes

if they or the obeast or any is successful in yanking a brain or head part, nerve, blood vessel, etc, then as the scripture has said, “without thy mind would I do nothing” (Philemon 1:14)

Synonyms

* See also

oblast

English

(wikipedia oblast)

Noun

(en noun)

A region or province in Slavic or Slavic-influenced countries.

* 1979 , Jerry Fincher Hough, How the Soviet Union Is Governed , page 483,

The territorial subdivision below the level of the union republic — or at least below the level of the larger union republics — is that of the oblast', the krai, or the autonomous republic. In 1977 there were 120 ' oblasts , 6 krais, and 20 autonomous republics, and they corresponded roughly to the American state in size.

* 2002 , Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance , page 119,

It is important to note, however, that the general pattern of Nizhnii Novgorod oblast' at the top and Tiumen' and Yaroslavl' ' oblasts in the middle, with Saratov at the bottom, occurred too often across all indicators to assume that even those differences in means that were not significant at a .05 confidence level or better occurred merely by chance.

* 2010 , Martha Brill Olcott, Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise , page 194,

Almaty oblast' (distinct from Almaty city) is the most rural of Kazakhstan's ' oblasts , at just 22.2 percent urban.

Derived terms

* autonomous oblast

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