different between alongshore vs longshore

English

From along +? shore.

alongshore (not comparable)

alongshore (not comparable)

At or along a shore or coast. [from 18th c.]
- 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin 2000, p. 60:
  On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the word and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.

Aphesis of alongshore.

longshore (not comparable)

Of, relating to, or living along a seacoast.
a longshore fisherman
(of a current) Flowing parallel to the shoreline, or diagonal to it, rather than perpendicular to it.
a dangerous longshore current

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