different between dusk vs lusk

English

Etymology

From Middle English dosk, duske (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?uh?s- (compare Old Irish donn (“dark”), Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit ???? (dh?sara, “dust-colored”)), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“smoke, mist, haze”). More at dye. Related to dust.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?sk/
• Rhymes: -?sk

Noun

dusk (countable and uncountable, plural dusks)

1. A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight.
2. A darkish colour.

   • Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

3. The condition of being dusky; duskiness

Synonyms

• (period of time): evenfall, nightfall, smokefall, vespers; see also Thesaurus:dusk

Antonyms

• (period of time): dawn, daybreak; see also Thesaurus:dawn

Hypernyms

• (period of time): twilight; see also Thesaurus:twilight

Hyponyms

• astronomical dusk
• civil dusk
• nautical dusk

Translations

See also

• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight ^{(Category: en:Times of day)}

Verb

dusk (third-person singular simple present dusks, present participle dusking, simple past and past participle dusked)

1. (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
   • 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, XXXIII, lines 25-27

     I see the air benighted
     And all the dusking dales,
     And lamps in England lighted,

2. (transitive) To make dusk.

   • After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth.

Translations

Adjective

dusk (comparative dusker, superlative duskest)

1. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

See also

• dusk at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• skud

Middle English

Adjective

dusk

1. Alternative form of dosk

English

Etymology

From Middle English *lusk, from Old Norse l?skr (“weak, idle”), from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz (“sluggish, dull, lazy”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?yd- (“to let, subside”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lasch (“flabby, loose”), Middle Low German lasch, las (“tired, dull”). Doublet of lush.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?sk/
• Rhymes: -?sk

Adjective

lusk (comparative more lusk, superlative most lusk)

1. lazy or slothful
2. (Britain, dialectal) full; ripe

Noun

lusk (plural lusks)

1. a lazy or slothful person

   (Can we find and add a quotation of T. Kendall to this entry?)

Verb

lusk (third-person singular simple present lusks, present participle lusking, simple past and past participle lusked)

1. (obsolete) To be idle or unemployed.

Anagrams

• sulk

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lusk?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lusk]
• Hyphenation: lusk

Noun

lusk m inan

1. pod (of a leguminous plant)

Declension

Further reading

• lusk in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• lusk in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

lusk

1. sneaky acts; covert operations
   • 2017, Knud H. Thomsen, Borgmesteren i Monteporco, Gyldendal A/S ?ISBN

     Allerede da jeg førte mit regiment i Abessinien og indtog byen Sokota, mærkede jeg, at der var noget lusk. Ikke et menneske at se! Aha, tænkte jeg, snigskytter på tagene, dynamit i kældrene, masser af bevæbnede sorte bag næste hjørne.

   • 2016, Inge Fischer Sørensen, Det sku' være så godt!, Lindhardt og Ringhof ?ISBN

     »Der er lusk i foretagendet!« Rie kneb det ene øje i og troede, at hun så fiffig ud. »Det lugter langt væk af lusk.«

   • 2016, Anders Westenholz, Tale er guld: Mere om over- og undertoner i den daglige samtale, Lindhardt og Ringhof ?ISBN

     En tilhører kan få mistanke om, at der er lusk i foretagendet – og mistanken forstærkes, når Brian – helt atypisk – klart giver til kende, at han har lektier for.

Declension

Indeclinable.

Related terms

• luske
• luskebuks
• lusket

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lusk?.

Noun

l?sk m inan

1. (botany) silique

Derived terms

• luš?ek

Further reading

• “lusk”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran