different between birse vs barse

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots birse (“bristle, hair”).

Noun

birse (plural birses)

1. (Scotland) bristle

Derived terms

• set up someone's birse

Anagrams

• biers, brise

Scots

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b?rs], [b?rs]

Noun

birse (plural birses)

1. bristle, hair
2. sheaf, plume (of bristles)
3. beard
4. anger, temper

Derived terms

• birsies (“bristles”) (diminutive)
• pit the birse up (“to make angry or ill-tempered”)
• whirl o birse (“the ace of spades”)

Verb

birse (third-person singular present birses, present participle birsin, past birsed, past participle birsed)

1. to put a bristle on
2. to flare up, get angry

Derived terms

• birsie (“bristly, hairy; hot-tempered, passionate; of the weather: keen, sharp; difficult”)
• birsed-ends (“a shoemaker's thread”)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b?rz], [b?rz]

Noun

birse (plural birses)

1. (medicine) bruise
2. pressure

Verb

birse (third-person singular present birses, present participle birsin, past birsed, past participle birsed)

1. to bruise
2. to push, press, squeeze

Derived terms

• birse ben a bit (“move along a bit”)
• birse tae (“push to”)

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