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Deadbeat vs Simon - What's the difference?

deadbeat | simon |

As nouns the difference between deadbeat and simon

is that deadbeat is a lazy person while simon is sixpence coin.

As an adjective deadbeat

is having a damped needle that stops without oscillation.

As a proper noun Simon is

Name of any of a number of men in the New Testament, notably the original name of Apostle Peter.

deadbeat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a lazy person
  • a person who defaults on his debts
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of an instrument) having a damped needle that stops without oscillation
  • defaulting on one's debts
  • defeated or exhausted
  • English pejoratives

    simon

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (Name of) any of a number of men in the New Testament, notably the original name of Apostle Peter.
  • * :
  • Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon', who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; ' Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
  • .
  • * 1996 , Alias Grace , Bloomsbury, ISBN 0-7475-27873, page 379:
  • His first name is Simon'. I wonder why his mother named him that, or it may have been his father. My own father never bothered with the naming of us, it was up to Mother and Aunt Pauline. There is '''Simon''' Peter the Apostle, of course, who was made a fisher of men by our Lord. But there is also Simple ' Simon . Met a pie man, going to the fair.
  • See also

    * Peter

    Anagrams

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