different between barse vs sarse

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b???s/

Etymology 1

From Middle English bars, from Old English bærs (“a fish, perch”), from Proto-West Germanic *bars, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”, literally “prickly”). Cognate with Dutch baars (“perch, bass”), German Barsch (“perch”). More at bass (“fish”).

Noun

barse (plural barses)

1. The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch.

Related terms

• bass

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of balls +? arse.

Noun

barse (plural barses)

1. (Britain, vulgar, slang) The perineum of a man.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:barse.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:perineum.

Anagrams

• BSAer, Bares, Brase, Breas, Saber, bares, baser, bears, besra, braes, rabes, saber, sabre

English

Etymology 1

Noun

sarse (plural sarses)

1. Alternative form of searce

Verb

sarse (third-person singular simple present sarses, present participle sarsing, simple past and past participle sarsed)

1. Alternative form of searce

Etymology 2

Noun

sarse (countable and uncountable, plural sarses)

1. Pronunciation spelling of sauce.

Verb

sarse (third-person singular simple present sarses, present participle sarsing, simple past and past participle sarsed)

1. Pronunciation spelling of sauce.

Anagrams

• SASER, Sears, arses, rases, rasse, sears

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sarce, sarss, saarce, scarce, sars, sarche

Etymology

From Old French saas (with addition of an intrusive -r-), from Late Latin *saet?ceus (pannus) (“(cloth) made of bristles”), from Latin saeta (“bristle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sars/, /sa?rs/

Noun

sarse

1. sieve, searce

Derived terms

• sarsen

Descendants

• English: searce, sarse
• Scots: search

References

• “s?rce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.