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Sudden vs Kerslap - What's the difference?

sudden | kerslap |

As adverbs the difference between sudden and kerslap

is that sudden is (poetic) suddenly while kerslap is with a sudden slap or loud slapping blow.

As nouns the difference between sudden and kerslap

is that sudden is (obsolete) an unexpected occurrence; a surprise while kerslap is a sudden slap or loud slapping blow.

As an adjective sudden

is happening quickly and with little or no warning.

sudden

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
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  • (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Never was such a sudden scholar made.
  • * Milton
  • the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye
  • (obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden

    Antonyms

    * gradual * unsudden

    Derived terms

    * all of a sudden * sudden death * suddenly * suddenness * suddenwoven

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (poetic) Suddenly.
  • * Milton
  • Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
  • Derived terms

    * all of a sudden * all of the sudden * of a sudden

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    kerslap

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden slap or loud slapping blow.
  • * 1996 , T. A. Barron, The Merlin Effect :
  • Kate's brow furrowed, as she listened to the kerslap', ' kerslap of the waves on the hull.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With a sudden slap or loud slapping blow.