Sheila vs Hull - What's the difference?
sheila | hull |
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) A woman.
* 2009 , Rosemary Van Den Berg, Clogs and Bare Feet ,
* 2010 , Deke Rivers, The Singer and His Songs ,
* 2011 , Kate Shayler, Burnished: Burnside Life Stories ,
To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
The body or frame of a vessel such as a ship or plane
* Dryden
(obsolete, intransitive, nautical) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled
*, II.1:
*:We goe not, but we are carried: as things that flote, now gliding gently, now hulling violently, according as the water is, either stormy or calme.
To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
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As a proper noun sheila
is or sheila can be .As a verb hull is
.sheila
English
Noun
(en noun)page 208,
- He was a real gentleman and although he never asked any personal questions as to why ‘a couple of sheilas ’ was hitch hiking to Perth, he said he was glad of the company.
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- “You know I counted no less than fifty-five sheilas out on the street today, all screaming when you guys played.”
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- I definitely didn?t think about getting married. I was real scared of sheilas back then.
Coordinate terms
* bloke, bruce (Australian)Synonyms
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* Australian slanghull
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Synonyms
* (outer covering of fruit or seed ): husk, shellDerived terms
* ahull * monohull * multihull * twinhull * tank hull * hull-downVerb
(en verb)- She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.
Synonyms
* (to remove hull of a fruit or seed ): peel, husk, shell, shuckEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)- Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light.
