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Walm vs Wasm - What's the difference?

walm | wasm |

As a verb walm

is to roll; to spout; to boil up.

As a noun wasm is

(label) an ideology, doctrine, theory or law that is no longer current or fashionable.

walm

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To roll; to spout; to boil up.
    • (Holland)
  • * 1845 (?), A view of Devonshire in 1630, with a Pedigree of most of its gentry , page 344:
    • It serveth the inhabitants with fresh water walming out of springs, though itself be on all sides circumpassed about with the sea.
  • * 1905 , The Myths of Plato , page 442:

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    wasm

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) An ideology, doctrine, theory or law that is no longer current or fashionable.
  • * 2008 , Peter Viereck, Strict Wildness: Discoveries in Poetry and History (page 137)
    • When our propaganda spasms turn your isms into wasms
  • * 2009 , Donald S. Lopez Jr., Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism
    • Dwight Eisenhower, a president not particularly remembered for his wit, once remarked that “all isms are wasms .” He was presumably referring, rather presciently, to the largely forgotten isms that were once perceived as a threat to truth, justice, and the American way: Marxism, socialism, communism.
  • * 2009 , Richard Taruskin, The Danger of Music: And Other Anti-Utopian Essays (page 86)
    • The nice thing about an ism, someone once observed, is how quickly it becomes a wasm .