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Sweat vs Goldbrick - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between sweat and goldbrick

is that sweat is fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation while goldbrick is a gold brick, especially one that is fraudulent or nonexistent; also used figuratively, a swindle, a con.

As verbs the difference between sweat and goldbrick

is that sweat is to emit sweat while goldbrick is to shirk or malinger.

sweat

English

(wikipedia sweat)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
  • (British, slang, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
  • (historical) The sweating sickness.
  • * 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, page 131:
    • When the sweat comes back this summer, 1528, people say, as they did last year, that you won't get it if you don't think about it.
    (Holinshed)
  • Moisture issuing from any substance.
    • the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack
    (Mortimer)
  • A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
    • Synonyms
    * (fluid that exits the body through pores) perspiration * sudor
    Derived terms
    * break a sweat * cold sweat * no sweat * old sweat * sweat gland * sweatshirt * sweatshop * sweaty

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Compare Dutch zweten, German schwitzen, Danish svede.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To emit sweat.
  • To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire.
    • His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
  • (informal) To work hard.
    • I've been sweating over my essay all day.
  • (informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
    • to sweat''' a spendthrift; to '''sweat labourers
  • (informal) To worry.
  • (colloquial) To worry about (something).
  • * 2010 , Brooks Barnes, "Studios battle to save Narnia", The New York Times , 5 Dec 2010:
    • There are few matters studio executives sweat more than maintaining their franchises.
  • To emit, in the manner of sweat.
    • to sweat blood
  • * Dryden
    • With exercise she sweat ill humors out.
  • To emit moisture.
    • The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it.
  • (plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
  • (slang) To stress out.
    • Stop sweatin' me!
  • (intransitive) To cook slowly in shallow oil without browning.
  • (archaic) To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.
  • * R. Cobden
    • The only use of it [money] which is interdicted is to put it in circulation again after having diminished its weight by sweating , or otherwise, because the quantity of metal contains is no longer consistent with its impression.
    Synonyms
    * (emit sweat) perspire * (work hard) slave, slog, work hard * (to worry) fret, worry
    Derived terms
    * sweat like a pig * sweater * (l) * unsweat

    Related terms

    * (l)

    Anagrams

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    goldbrick

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gold-brick

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gold brick, especially one that is fraudulent or nonexistent; a swindle, a con.
  • * 1920 , , (The Smart Set),'' January 1920, collected in ''(Tales of the Jazz Age):
  • *:Experience is the biggest gold brick in the world. All older people have it for sale.
  • * 1932 , , Memoirs Of A Soldier Of Fortune , Kessinger Publishing (2006), ISBN 9781428658349, page 98:
    • These, as a rule, were not adverse to buying a goldbrick as long as they knew that there was a chance for them to dump it on somebody else afterwards with some profit.
  • * 1932 , in , Volume 166, page 520:
    • To-day, American attitude toward Europe is comparable to that of the country greenhorn who, having bought a goldbrick on Broadway, now fills the air not merely with the denunciation of the sharpers who tricked his credulity —
  • * 1945 , in the Department of Agriculture and Immigration Bulletin , Volumes 422–433, page 5:
    • The average farmer may be less of a victim than some other people by reason of his isolation, conservatism, and hard earned money, but he, too, has too often bought a goldbrick that did not materialize.
  • * , quoted in Lewis M. Dabney, Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature , ][http://www.amazon.com/Edmund-Wilson-Literature-Lewis-Dabney/dp/0374113122 Macmillan (2005), ISBN 9780374113124, page 485:
  • (US slang, dated) A shirker or malingerer
  • * 1945 , Dr. Charley Haly, quoted in Doc: heroic stories of medics, corpsmen, and surgeons in combat by Mark R. Littleton, p. 68
  • *:Mac, there’s not a confounded thing wrong with you. You are an excellent physical specimen and in good health. You’re nothing but a goldbrick . Now, get your butt out of here and don’t ever come back again unless you’re really sick or need an immunization.
  • * 2004 (written ), (Howard Ashman), , “Proud of your Boy”:
  • *:Tell me that I’ve been a louse and loafer
  • *:You won’t get a fight here, no ma’am
  • *:Say I’m a goldbrick, a good-off, no good
  • *:But that couldn’t be all that I am
  • (US slang, dated) A swindler

    • Verb

  • (US slang, dated) To shirk or malinger
  • (US slang, dated) To swindle

    • Derived terms

    * goldbricker

    References