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Shill vs Shrill - What's the difference?

shill | shrill |

As nouns the difference between shill and shrill

is that shill is a person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial while shrill is a shrill sound.

As verbs the difference between shill and shrill

is that shill is to promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly while shrill is to make a shrill noise.

As an adjective shrill is

high-pitched and piercing.

shill

English

(wikipedia shill)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.
  • * 26 June 2014 , A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together [http://www.avclub.com/review/paul-rudd-and-amy-poehler-spoof-rom-com-cliches-th-206220]
    • You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel (Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly (Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.
  • * 1983 , , Prometheus Rising ,
    • Witnesses have testified that Jim Jones (like a few other professional faith-healers) used shills part of the time....
  • An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.
  • * 1994 , , The Crossing ,
    • The pitchman swept his cane in a slow acceleration over the heads of the crowd and then suddenly pointed the silver cap toward Billy and the shill .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (pejorative) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.
  • * 1996 , , The Demon-Haunted World ,
    • Today there are even commercials in which real scientists, some of considerable distinction, shill for corporations. They teach that scientists too will lie for money. As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
  • To put under cover; to sheal.
  • (UK, obsolete, dialect) To shell.

    • Related terms

    * sheep-dip

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    shrill

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • High-pitched and piercing.
    • She spoke in a shrill voice.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give / To sounds confused.
  • * Byron
    • Let winds be shrill , let waves roll high.
  • Sharp or keen to the senses.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a shrill noise.
  • * Spenser
    • Break we our pipes, that shrill'd loud as lark.
  • * Goldsmith
    • No sounds were heard but of the shrilling cock.
  • * L. Wallace
    • His voice shrilled with passion.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shrill sound.
    • (Spenser)