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Turk vs Ottomite - What's the difference?

turk | ottomite |

In obsolete terms the difference between turk and ottomite

is that turk is a Muslim while ottomite is a Turk, specifically from the Ottoman Empire.

As nouns the difference between turk and ottomite

is that turk is a member of any of the numerous ethnic groups whose majority have lived a nomadic life on the vast Eurasian steppe, speaking Turkic languages while Ottomite is a Turk, specifically from the Ottoman Empire.

turk

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A member of any of the numerous ethnic groups whose majority have lived a nomadic life on the vast Eurasian steppe, speaking Turkic languages.
  • A person from Turkey.
  • (obsolete) A Muslim.
  • *, II.12:
    • Compare but our manners unto a Turke .
  • * Chillingworth
    • It is no good reason for a man's religion that he was born and brought up in it; for then a Turk would have as much reason to be a Turk as a Christian to be a Christian.
  • (archaic) A bloodthirsty and savage person; vandal; barbarian.
  • * 1579 , John Lyly, Euphues , page 42:
    • Was neuer any Impe so wicked and barbarous, any Turke so vyle and brutishe.
  • * 1760 , Tobias George Smollett (editor), The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 9 , page 20:
    • A sort of primitive barbarity distinguishes the whole; no variety of character appears; and to call a man Turk is to say, that he is jealous, haughty, covetous, ignorant, and lascivious; at the same time that a certain dignity of gait, and magnificence of manners, gives him the appearance of generosity and true greatness of soul.
  • * 1987 , Anne Mozley, Essays from "Blackwood" , page 21:
    • A bad temper does seem often favourable to health. The man who has been a Turk all his life lives long to plague all about him.
  • * 1906 , (George Meredith), One of our conquerors , page 292:
    • As much as the wilfully or naturally blunted, the intelligently honest have to learn by touch: only, their understandings cannot meanwhile be so wholly obtuse as our society's matron, acting to please the tastes of the civilized man—a creature that is not clean-washed of the Turk in him—barbarously exacts.
  • * 1928 , Lu?f? Levonian, Moslem mentality: a discussion of the presentation of Christianity to Moslems , page 85:
    • They regarded the very word Turk' as synonymous with ignorance, impoliteness, and idiocy. To call a man '' Turk' was regarded as a great dishonour to him.
  • (US, slang) A homosexual, assuming the active role in anal sex.
  • * 1938 , Aaron Joshua Rosanoff, Manual of psychiatry and mental hygiene , page 159:
    • The clannishness of homosexuals has led to the development of special slang expressions among them: Temperamental or queer'', a homosexual person. ''Turk , wolf, or jocker , an active sodomist.
  • * 1993 , Jonathon Green, Slang down the ages: the historical development of slang , page 231:
  • *:turd-packer, hitchhiker on the Hershey highway (fr. the US Hershey chocolate bars), shirt-lifter (Australian), wind-jammer, fart-catcher, dirt tamper, pillow-biter and Turk (fr. the alleged national propensity for sodomy).
  • * 2006 , Deborah Cameron, On language and sexual politics , page 35:
    • One of the many underworld synonyms for an active pederast is turk .
  • A member of a Mestee group in South Carolina.

    • Derived terms

    * Turk's head

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    ottomite

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A Turk, specifically from the Ottoman Empire.
  • * (Othello) Act 2, Scene 3, Page 8:
    • Why, how now, ho! From whence ariseth this?
    Are we turned Turks? And to ourselves do that
    Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites ?