Smart vs Stound - What's the difference?
smart | stound |
To hurt or sting.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To cause a smart or sting in.
* T. Adams
To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
* Alexander Pope
* Bible, Proverbs xi. 15
Causing sharp pain; stinging.
* Shakespeare
Sharp; keen; poignant.
Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 19
Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
(often, in combination) Equipped with intelligent behaviour.
Good-looking.
Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
* Young
* Addison
Sudden and intense.
* Clarendon
* 1860 July 9, Henry David Thoreau, journal entry, from Thoreau's bird-lore'', Francis H. Allen (editor), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, 1910), ''Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau , Beacon Press, (Boston, 1993), page 239:
(US, Southern, dated) Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right .
(archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
* Dryden
(archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.
(archaic) Brisk; fresh.
A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
* Milton
* Spenser
Smart-money.
(slang, dated) A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.
(chronology, obsolete) An hour.
* 1765 , Percy's Reliques, The King and the Tanner of Tamworth (original license: 1564):
(obsolete) A tide, season.
(archaic, or, dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while.
* 1801 , Walter Scott, The Talisman :
(archaic, or, dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.
A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
(dialectal) A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
* 1857 , Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture :
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
* 1895 , Mansie Wauch, The Life of Mansie Wauch: tailor in Dalkeith :
astonishment; amazement
(obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To hurt, pain, smart.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene II, verses 93-95
(obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
(obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To long or pine after, desire.
* 1823 , Edward Moor, Suffolk words and phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county :
As a proper noun smart
is .As a noun stound is
(chronology|obsolete) an hour or stound can be a stand; a stop or stound can be a receptacle for holding small beer.As a verb stound is
(obsolete|or|dialectal|intransitive) to hurt, pain, smart or stound can be (obsolete) to stand still; stop.smart
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) smerten, from (etyl) .Verb
- After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts !"
- He moved convulsively, and as he did so, said, "I'll be quiet, Doctor. Tell them to take off the strait waistcoat. I have had a terrible dream, and it has left me so weak that I cannot move. What's wrong with my face? It feels all swollen, and it smarts dreadfully."
- A goad that smarts the flesh.
- No creature smarts so little as a fool.
- He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) smart, smarte, smerte, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience.
- a smart pain
- I always preferred the church, and I still do. But that was not smart' enough for my family. They recommended the army. That was a great deal too ' smart for me.
- smart''' bomb'', '''''smart car
- smart'''card'', '''''smart phone
- a smart outfit
- He became tired of his daughter's sarcasm and smart remarks''.
- Who, for the poor renown of being smart / Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
- a sentence or two, which I thought very smart
- smart skirmishes, in which many fell
- There is a smart shower at 5 P.M., and in the midst of it a hummingbird is busy about the flowers in the garden, unmindful of it, though you would think that each big drop that struck him would be a serious accident.
- He raised his voice, and it hurt her feelings right smart .
- That cast on his leg chaffs him right smart .
- The stars shine smarter .
- a smart gown
- a smart breeze
Synonyms
* (exhibiting social ability) bright, capable, sophisticated, witty * (exhibiting intellectual knowledge) cultivated, educated, learned, see also * (good-looking) attractive, chic, stylish, handsome * sillyAntonyms
* (exhibiting social ability) backward, banal, boorish, dull, inept * (exhibiting intellectual knowledge) ignorant, uncultivated, simple * (good-looking) garish, , tackyDerived terms
* smart aleck * smart as a whip * smart casual * smart offEtymology 3
From (etyl) smerte, from . More above.Noun
(en noun)- To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart .
- Counsel mitigates the greatest smart .
- (Fielding)
Anagrams
* * ----stound
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) stond, stounde, . Related to (l).Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
(s)- What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound
- (Chaucer)
- He lay and slept, and swet a stound , / And became whole and sound.
- Listen to me a little stound .
- (Chaucer)
- No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage''
- ere the point arriued, where it ought, / That seuen-fold shield, which he from Guyon brought / He cast betwene to ward the bitter stound [...].
- [...] and run away with him, almost whether he will or not, in a stound of unbearable love!
- (Spenser)
- (Gay)
Derived terms
* ill stound * in a stound * stoundmeal * umbestound * umstound * upon a stoundVerb
(en verb)- Your wrath, weak boy ? Tremble at mine unless
- Retraction follow close upon the heels
- Of that late stounding insult […]
- Recently weaned children "stound after the breast."