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Zest vs Hustle - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between zest and hustle

is that zest is the outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish while hustle is a state of busy activity.

As verbs the difference between zest and hustle

is that zest is to scrape the zest from a fruit while hustle is to rush or hurry.

zest

English

Noun

(wikipedia zest)
  • The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.
  • The orange zest gives the strong flavors in this dish.
  • (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.
  • Auntie Mame had a real zest for life.
  • * Young
  • Almighty Vanity! to thee they owe / Their zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe.
  • * Gogan
  • Liberality of disposition and conduct gives the highest zest and relish to social intercourse.
  • The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.
  • * 2006 , N. J. Nusha, On the edge: short stories (page 85)
  • The green zest of walnuts was used by the women to shine their teeth and it also gave a beautiful rust colour to their lips.

    Synonyms

    * (enthusiasm) gusto * spice, relish, tang

    Verb

  • (cooking) To scrape the zest from a fruit
  • To make more zesty
  • ----

    hustle

    English

    Verb

  • To rush or hurry.
  • I'll have to hustle to get there on time.
  • * 1922 , (Sinclair Lewis), Chapter 12
  • Men in dairy lunches were hustling' to gulp down the food which cooks had ' hustled to fry
  • To con or deceive; especially financially.
  • The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.
  • To bundle, to stow something quickly.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
  • There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
  • To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
  • To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
  • To sell sex, to work as a pimp.
  • To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
  • (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
  • To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.
  • *
  • There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A state of busy activity.
  • A type of disco dance.
  • Derived terms

    * hustle and bustle * hustler * hustly

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