Scourge vs Clobber - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.
A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
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A whip, often of leather.
* Chapman
To strike with a scourge , to flog.
(slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.
* 1954 , , The Blackboard Jungle , 1984,
* 2000 November 30, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) ,
* 2002 , Donald K. Burleson, Oracle9i UNIX Administration Handbook ,
(computing) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.
* 1999 , Michael J. Wooldridge, Anand Rao, Foundations of Rational Agency ,
* 2004 , John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young, Unix for Dummies ,
* 2007 , Billy Hoffman, Bryan Sullivan, Ajax Security ,
(UK, Australia, slang) Clothing.
* 1892 , , Loot'', in ''Barrack-Room Ballads ,
* 1899 , ,
* 1919 , , Red Robin'', in ''Jim of The Hills ,
(UK, slang) Equipment.
Scourge is a related term of clobber.
As nouns the difference between scourge and clobber
is that scourge is (uncountable) a source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction while clobber is (uk|australia|slang) clothing.As verbs the difference between scourge and clobber
is that scourge is to strike with a scourge , to flog while clobber is (slang) to hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.scourge
English
Noun
- What scourge for perjury / Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
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- Up to coach then goes / The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.
Verb
See also
* (pedia)clobber
English
Etymology 1
British slang from 1941; possibly onomatopoeic of the sound of detonated bombs in the distance.Verb
(en verb)page 201,
- So the temptation to clobber was always there, and it was sometimes more difficult not to strike than it would have been to strike, and the consequences be damned.
page 3034,
- Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the East African Standard'' newspaper we saw a picture of a man being carried away after being clobbered'''. We also saw women being '''clobbered''' by well-built policemen using big clubs. They were ' clobbering women who had already fallen on the ground.
page 395,
- Most of the job of the UNIX Oracle DBA is keeping the database running, and it does not come as a surprise when they see how easy it is to clobber a server.
- The following script cripples the UNIX server by an implosion of incoming jobs. This is known as a denial of service (DOS) attack.
page 74,
- Inferences made in accordance with this reason are defeated by finding that the merged plan clobbers one of the causal-links in one of the constituent plans.
page 314,
- The
cpcommand does one thing as it clobbers a file;mvandlndo another.
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- These functions collide, and we can see in Figure 7-1 that the
debug()function for SexyWidgets clobbers' the developer?sdebug()function. The last function declared with the same name in the same scope will silently ' clobber the earlier function definition.
Etymology 2
British slang from 19th Century.Noun
(en noun)Gutenberg eBook #2819,
- W?y, they call a man a robber if ?e stuffs ?is marchin? clobber / With the— / (Chorus) Loo! loo! Lulu! lulu! Loo! loo! Loot! loot! loot!
Gutenberg eBook #3418,
- Now to get rid of this respectable clobber and feel like a man again.
Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500931,
- I was thinkin? of the widow while I gets me clobber on - / Like a feller will start thinkin? of the times that?s past an? gone.