Stint vs Grudge - What's the difference?
stint | grudge |
A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
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limit; bound; restraint; extent
* South
Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
* Cowper
(archaic) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
* Late 14th century , :
To be sparing or mean.
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
* Woodward
* Law
To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
To impregnate successfully; to get with foal; said of mares.
* J. H. Walsh
Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris . Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
(countable) Deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone.
* 1607 , Barnabe Barnes, THE DIVILS CHARTER: A TRAGÆDIE Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the ?ixt , ACTVS. 5, SCÆ. 1:
* 1879 , Henry James, The American , Rinehart, page 288:
* 2001 , H. Rider Haggard, All Adventure: Child of Storm/a Tale of Three Lions , Essential Library (xLibris), page 274:
(obsolete) To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XV:
To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something).
* 1608 , Henrie Gosson, The Woefull and Lamentable wast and spoile done by a suddaine Fire in S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolke, on Munday the tenth of Aprill. 1608. , reprinted by F. Pawsey, Old Butter Market, Ipswich, 1845, page 6:
* 1841 , Edmund Burke, The Annual Register , Rivingtons, page 430:
* 1869 , Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment , Fields, Osgood, & Co., p. 62 [http://books.google.com/books?id=dk8IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62#v=onepage&f=false]:
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* 1953 , , Viking Press, 1953, chapter 3:
(obsolete) To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To feel compunction or grief.
As nouns the difference between stint and grudge
is that stint is a period of time spent doing or being something a spell or stint can be any of several very small wading birds in the genus calidris types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling or stint can be (medical device) while grudge is (countable) deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone.As verbs the difference between stint and grudge
is that stint is (archaic|intransitive) to stop (an action); cease, desist while grudge is (obsolete) to grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.stint
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He had a stint in jail.
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- God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
- His old stint — three thousand pounds a year.
Verb
(en verb)- O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife
- And stint thou too, I pray thee.
- The damsel stinted in her song.
- Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus, / And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf
- The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
- I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds.
- She stints them in their meals.
- The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
Etymology 2
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Anagrams
* * *grudge
English
Noun
(en noun)- to hold a grudge against someone
- to have a grudge against someone
- to bear a grudge against someone
- Bag. And if I do not my good Lord damme me for it
- I haue an old grudge at him cole black curre,
- He ?hall haue two ?teele bullets ?trongly charg’d
- I have never mentioned it to a human creature ; I have kept my grudge' to myself. I daresay I have been wicked, but my ' grudge has grown old with me.
- It is towards Saduko that he bears a grudge , for you know, my father, one should never pull a drowning man out of the stream — which is what Saduko did, for had it not been for his treachery, Cetewayo would have sunk beneath the water of Death — especially if it is only to spite a woman who hates him.
Derived terms
* hold a grudge * have a grudge * bear a grudgeVerb
(grudg)- And the pharises, and scribes grudged sainge: He receaveth to his company synners [...].
- Wee shall finde our whole life so necessarily ioyned with sorrow, that we ought rather delight (and take pleasure) in Gods louing chastisements, and admonitions, then any way murmure and grudge at our crosses, or tribulations :
- If we of the central land were to grudge you what is beneficial, and not to compassionate your wants, then wherewithal could you foreigners manage to exist?
- Of course, his interest in the war and in the regiment was unbounded; he did not take to drill with especial readiness, but he was insatiable of it, and grudged every moment of relaxation.
- Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.
- I've never seen such people for borrowing and lending; there was dough changing hands in all directions, and nobody grudged anyone.
- Perish they / That grudge one thought against your majesty!
- (Bishop Fisher)
