different between barf vs josh

English

Etymology

Uncertain. Probably of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??f/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b??f/
• Rhymes: -??(r)f
• Homophone: Barff

Noun

barf (uncountable)

1. (US, colloquial) vomit

Translations

Verb

barf (third-person singular simple present barfs, present participle barfing, simple past and past participle barfed)

1. (US, colloquial) To vomit.
2. (computing, slang, intransitive, by extension) Of a system: to fail.

   The program barfed as a result of the invalid input.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:regurgitate

Descendants

• Dutch: barfen

Translations

Interjection

barf!

1. An expression of disgust.
   • 2011, "This is My Jam", season 2, episode 13 of Regular Show

     Mordecai: You can't touch music. But music can touch you.

     Rigby: Oh, barf.

Anagrams

• farb, frab

Cornish

Noun

barf m

1. Alternative form of barv

Mutation

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *barv, borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin barba, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ard?eh?. Compare Cornish barv, Breton barv.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /barv/

Noun

barf f (plural barfau)

1. beard

Synonyms

• locsyn (North Wales)

Derived terms

• bhen ?r
• barfog

Mutation

English

Etymology

Of disputed origin, but first attested in the mid-19th century as a verb. The earliest example is capitalized, so it is likely a nickname of the proper name Joshua (see more there). Perhaps it was taken as a typical name of an old farmer.

Noun

josh (plural joshes)

1. An instance of good-natured banter.

Verb

josh (third-person singular simple present joshes, present participle joshing, simple past and past participle joshed)

1. (transitive) To tease someone in a kindly or friendly fashion.
2. (intransitive) To make or exchange good-natured jokes.
   • 1902: We are old friends, did I not tell you? So I may, what you Americans call, josh with him. — Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows
   • 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (in The Guardian, 13 September 2013)[1]

     Boris, it seems, is taking it in this spirit, joshing beneath his ever-redeeming barnet that Labour's opposition to military action in Syria is a fey stance that he, as GQ politician of the year, would never be guilty of.

Translations

Derived terms

• josher
• joshingly

References

• “josh” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *j?udsja, from Proto-Indo-European *Hyewd?- (compare Lithuanian jáudinti (“to excite, arouse”), Polish judzi? (“to incite”), Latin jubere (“to order”)).

Verb

josh (first-person singular past tense josha, participle joshur)

1. to fondle, caress
2. to entice, seduce

Derived terms

• joshë