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Stein vs Ostein - What's the difference?

stein | ostein |

As a proper noun stein

is from a (etyl) diminutive of stephen.

As a noun ostein is

.

stein

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A beer mug, usually made of ceramic.
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein . Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • *1974 , (Thomas Pynchon), (w, Gravity's Rainbow)
  • *:A gnome-size German civilian with a red von Hindenburg mustache is dispensing steins of what looks to be mostly head.
  • References

    References

    * Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001]

    ostein

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Webster 1913)