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Noir vs Scurvy - What's the difference?

noir | scurvy |

As nouns the difference between noir and scurvy

is that noir is black (person) while scurvy is (disease) a disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin c leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes.

As an adjective scurvy is

covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.

noir

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (film, TV) Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre
  • * {{quote-book, 2008, Jerold J. Abrams & Elizabeth Cooke, chapter=Detection and the Logic of Abduction in The X-Files , The Philosophy of TV Noir citation
    • , passage=As a neo-Sherlock Holmes, however, Mulder is also a very noir version of the classic detective (just as Scully is a very noir Watson).}}

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (film, and, TV) A production in the style of film noir
  • * {{quote-news, 2007, January 29, Wendell Jamieson, Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt, Nights Are Noir in Fog City, New York Times citation
    • , passage=Several noirs , including “Raw Deal,” have been set here. }}

    Anagrams

    * * * * * ----

    scurvy

    English

    (wikipedia scurvy)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (disease) A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.}}

    Synonyms

    * (vitamin C deficiency disease) Barlow's disease, , scorbutus

    Derived terms

    * scurvy grass

    Related terms

    * -scorbic * scorbic * ascorbic * scorbutic

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
  • * Bible, Leviticus xxi. 18, 20
    • whatsoever man be scurvy or scabbed
  • Contemptible, despicable, low, disgustingly mean.
    • a scurvy''' trick; a '''scurvy knave
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • that scurvy custom of taking tobacco
  • * 1610 , , act 3 scene 2
    • What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch!

    Derived terms

    * scurvily * scurviness

    See also

    * morphew

    References

    * * * * Who Named It? last accessed 28-Mar-2007