Occupy vs Codswallop - What's the difference?
occupy | codswallop |
(label) To take or use time.
# To fill time.
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# To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
# To fill or hold (an official position or role).
# To hold the attention of.
(label) To take or use space.
# To fill space.
# To live or reside in.
#* (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
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# (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
#* 1940 , in The China monthly review , volumes 94-95, page 370 [http://books.google.com/books?id=QqkTAAAAIAAJ&q=%22occupy+but+cannot+hold%22&dq=%22occupy+but+cannot+hold%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OB6HT4_zC4e68ASF1-jNCA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA]:
#* 1975 , Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford, King Charles and King Pym, 1637-1643 , page 330 [http://books.google.com/books?ei=ex2HT9-GK5D69gTJqNjdCA&id=VCwqAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22occupied+but+could+not+hold%22&q=%22occupied+but+could%22#search_anchor]:
#* 1983 , Arthur Keppel-Jones, Rhodes and Rhodesia: The White Conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884-1902 , page 462:
#* 1991 , Werner Spies, John William Gabriel, Max Ernst collages: the invention of the surrealist universe , page 333:
#* 2006 , John Michael Francis, Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History , page 496:
# (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
(obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language , second edition, 1966.
* 1590s , (William Shakespeare), ,
* 1867 , (Robert Nares) A Glossary
*:: These villains will make the word captain, as odious as the word occupy''. ''2 Hen. IV , ii, 4.
*:: Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand
*:: For 's whore; Groyne still doth occupy'' his land. ''B. Jons. Epigr. , 117.
*:: Many, out of their own obscene apprehensions, refuse proper and fit words, as occupy'', nature, and the like. ''Ibid., Discoveries , vol. vii, p. 119.
(obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
* Bible, (w) xxvii. 9
* 1551 , (in Latin), 1516
(obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.
* Bible, (w) xxxviii. 24
* 1551 , (in Latin), 1516
(UK, slang) Senseless talk or writing; nonsense.
* 1959 ,
* 1963 October 17, (Radio Times) , 52/2,
* 1981 October 1, John Turner, Review: Autumn Books: Prometheus bounded?'', '' ,
* 1993', J. Neville Turner, ''The One-Day Game – Cricket or '''Codswallop ?'', in 2001, David John Headon, ''The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection .
* 2010 , Grahame Howard, The Wishing Book 3 – Extermination ,
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As a verb occupy
is to take or use time.As a noun codswallop is
senseless talk or writing; nonsense.occupy
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The better apartments were already occupied .
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied ; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- The Japanese can occupy but cannot hold, and what they can hold they cannot hold long, was the opinion of General Pai Chung-hsi, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army,
- Rupert, with his usual untamable energy, was scouring the country — but at first in the wrong direction, that of Aylesbury, another keypoint in the outer ring of Oxford defences, which he occupied but could not hold.
- One of the rebel marksmen, who had taken up position on a boulder, was knocked off it by the recoil of his weapon every time he fired. Again the attack achieved nothing. Positions were occupied , but could not be held.
- Germany occupied France for three years while France struggled to make payments that were a condition of surrender.
- Spain occupied , but could not populate, and its failure to expand Florida led Britain to consider the peninsula a logical extension of its colonial holdings.
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- God's light, these villains will make the word as odious as the word 'occupy ;' which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted
- OCCUPY, [sensu obsc.] To possess, or enjoy.
- It is so used also in Rowley's New Wonder, Anc. Dr., v, 278.
- All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.
- not able to occupy their old crafts
- all the gold that was occupied for the work
- They occupy not money themselves.
Synonyms
* (to possess or use the time or capacity of) employ, busyDerived terms
* occupier * occupationSee also
*References
*External links
* *codswallop
English
Alternative forms
* cod's wallopNoun
(-)- Tony : I was not.
- Sidney : Don’t give me that old codswallop . You were counting your money.
- Just branding a programme as ‘rubbish’, ‘tripe’, or—there are a lot of these—‘codswallop ’, gives little indication of what moved the viewer to write.
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- An interviewer from a Warsaw radio station stopped a citizen in the street. Was the recent demonstration necessary? “History will tell.” But what did he think? “I am not a historian.” Likewise Lumsden?s and Wilson?s book. If it is not a load of codswallop', it will turn out to be very important. If it is not a load of '''codswallop . ''Faites vos jeux!
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- “I?ve told you all I know,” Rosa Armaz told Boarski and Yermin, “I don?t know what my husband has been doing. He?d mentioned going to Mars with the children but I thought it was a load of codswallop .”
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* hogswallopReferences
codswallop]”, Michael Quinion, [http://www.worldwidewords.org/ World Wide Words*