Throng vs Covey - What's the difference?
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A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
* Daniel
* Milton
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=2 A group of things; a host or swarm.
(label) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
(label) To congregate.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
* Bible, (w) v. 24
(Scotland, Northern England, dialect) Filled with persons or objects; crowded.
*1882 , Gerard Manley Hopkins, :
*:EARTH, sweet Earth, sweet landscape, with leavés throng
*:And louchéd low grass, heaven that dost appeal
*:To, with no tongue to plead, no heart to feel;
*:That canst but only be, but dost that long—
A group of 8-12 (or more) quail. See gaggle, host, flock.
A brood of partridges, grouse, etc.
A party or group (of persons or things).
* 1906 , O. Henry,
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 736
To brood; to incubate.
* Holland
* 1869 , Florida. Commissioner of Lands and Immigration, Florida: Its Climate, Soil, and Productions (page 108)
(British, slang, dated) A man.
* 1846 , Justin Jones, The prince and the queen; or, Scenes in high life
* 1850 , Waldo Howard, The mistake of a life-time, or, The robber of the Rhine (page 140)
* 1851 , William Thomas Moncrieff, Selections from the dramatic works of William T. Moncrieff
Throng is a related term of covey.
As nouns the difference between throng and covey
is that throng is a group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude while covey is a group of 8-12 (or more) quail see gaggle, host, flock or covey can be (british|slang|dated) a man.As verbs the difference between throng and covey
is that throng is (label) to crowd into a place, especially to fill it while covey is to brood; to incubate.As an adjective throng
is (scotland|northern england|dialect) filled with persons or objects; crowded.throng
English
Noun
(en noun)- So, with this bold opposer rushes on / This many-headed monster, multitude .
- Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, / The lowest of your throng .
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Quotations
* 1885 — *: Perhaps you suppose this throng *: Can't keep it up all day long?Verb
(en verb)George Goodchild
- I have seen the dumb men throng to see him.
- Much people followed him, and thronged him.
Adjective
(en adjective)covey
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia covey) (en noun)- The store is on a corner about which coveys of ragged-plumed, hilarious children play and become candidates for the cough drops and soothing syrups that wait for them inside.
- A covey of grey soldiers clanked down the platform at the double with their equipment and embarked, but in absolute silence, which seemed to them very singular.
Verb
(en verb)- [Tortoises] covey a whole year before they hatch.
- There is a duck called the raft duck, because it is so numerous, coveying together in "whole rafts."
References
* 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- 'Pooh!' said he, 'you are as easily wounded as an unfledged dove — don't mind what an old covey like me says — I understand it all.'
- There vas an old covey as lived in Wapping, at the time I'm telling you of, who vas connected vith us by ties of common interest.
- I don't know what would become of these here young chaps, if it wasn't for such careful old coveys as we are—