different between demijohn vs carboy

English

Alternative forms

• demi-john

Etymology

Partial calque of French dame-jeanne (literally “Lady Jane”), of uncertain origin. Note that the French Jeanne (“Jane, feminine of John”) has changed to the masculine form John, rather than the cognate English Jane.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?m?d??n/

Noun

demijohn (plural demijohns)

1. A large bottle with a short neck, sometimes with two small handles at the neck, sometimes encased in wickerwork.

   Synonym: carboy

   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 234:

     Toby, placing his gold-rimmed spectacles on his nose, set our dinner to simmer and uncorked a demijohn of the old Verfeuille red which glowed in our glasses with the embers of old recollections of half-forgotten journeys and excursions of our youth by the light of the moon.?

Translations

Further reading

• carboy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Persian ?????? (qarrâbeh, qarrâbah).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.b??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??.b??/

Noun

carboy (plural carboys)

1. A large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for fermentation, and now commonly made of plastic and used to store liquids.

   Synonym: demijohn

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Verb

carboy (third-person singular simple present carboys, present participle carboying, simple past and past participle carboyed)

1. (transitive) To bottle in a carboy.
   • 1936, New York (State) Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin (issues 658-679, page 14)

     Juice bottled or carboyed at this high temperature is difficult to cool rapidly because of the danger of breakage of glass.