Yawn vs Bawn - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between yawn and bawn

is that yawn is the action of ; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired while bawn is a cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.

As a verb yawn

is to open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.

yawn

English

(wikipedia yawn)

Verb

(en verb)

To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.

I could see my students yawning , so I knew the lesson was boring them.

* Trumbull

And while above he spends his breath, / The yawning audience nod beneath.

To present a wide opening.

The canyon yawns as it has done for millions of years, and we stand looking, dumbstruck.

Death yawned before us, and I hit the brakes.

* Shakespeare

'Tis now the very witching time of night, / When churchyards yawn .

To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.

(Shakespeare)

To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.

to yawn for fat livings

* Landor

one long, yawning gaze

Noun

(en noun)

The action of ; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired.

A particularly boring event.

The slideshow we sat through was such a yawn . I was glad when it finished.

Derived terms

* multicolour yawn * Technicolor yawn * yawnfest

Anagrams

bawn

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.

(Spenser)

* 1729', (editor), John Nichols (editor, revised edition), '''1812 , ''The British Classics, Volume 45'': ''The works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume XI , page 163:

The Grand Question Debated

Whether Hamilton's Bawn Should be Turned into a Barrack or a Malt-house ? 1729

This Hamilton's bawn , while it sticks in my hand, / I lose by the house what I get by the land; / But how to dispose of it to the best bidder, / For a barrack or malthouse, we now must consider.

* 1892 , :

When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making?

A defensive wall built around a tower house. It was once used to protect livestock during an attack.

* 2004', Colm J. Donnelly, ''Passage or Barrier? Communication between '''Bawn and Tower House in Late Medieval Ireland – the Evidence from County Limerick'', in ''Château Gaillard 21: Études de castellologie médiévale: La Basse-cour: Actes du colloque international de Maynooth (Irlande), 23-30 août 2002 , page 57:

The cattle, therefore, would be brought into the bawn' at night, as is stated by the early 17th-century writer Fynes Moryson who wrote that the Irish cattle “eat only by day, and then are brought at evening within the ' bawns of castles, where they stand or lie all night in a dirty yard without so much as a lock of hay.”

Etymology 2

Participle

(head)

* 1894 , , Chapter 2: Driscoll Spares His Slaves:

"Bofe de same age, sir —five months. Bawn de fust o' Feb'uary."

* 1899 , :

But ef it has ter be prove' ter folks w'at wa'n't bawn en raise' in dis naberhood, dey is a' easy way ter prove it.

* 1900 , , Act I:

Yah! You oughter bin bawn a Christian, you ought. You knaow too mach.

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