Spurns vs Spurts - What's the difference?
spurns | spurts |
(spurn)
(ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
* Shakespeare
To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
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(obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
* Chaucer
* Gay
An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
A kick; a blow with the foot.
* Milton
(obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
* Shakespeare
A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
As verbs the difference between spurns and spurts
is that spurns is third-person singular of spurn while spurts is third-person singular of spurt.As nouns the difference between spurns and spurts
is that spurns is plural of spurn while spurts is plural of spurt.spurns
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Verb
(head)Noun
(head)spurn
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Verb
(en verb)- to spurn at your most royal image
- What safe and nicely I might well delay / By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn .
- Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet.
- I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
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- The miller spurned at a stone.
- The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns .
Derived terms
* spurnerNoun
(en noun)- What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn ?
- The insolence of office and the spurns / That patient merit of the unworthy takes.