different between exquisite vs beaut

English

Etymology

From Latin exqu?s?tus, perfect passive participle of exqu?r? (“seek out”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?skw?z?t/, /??kskw?z?t/

Adjective

exquisite (comparative more exquisite, superlative most exquisite)

1. Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.

   • Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

2. (obsolete) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
3. Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
4. Of special beauty or rare excellence.
5. Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.

6. Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.

   • his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite

Synonyms

• beautiful, delicate, discriminating, perfect

Translations

Noun

exquisite (plural exquisites)

1. (rare) Fop, dandy. [from early 20th c.]
   • 1849, Alexander Mackay, The western world; or, travels in the United States in 1846-87 (page 93)

     It is impossible to meet with a more finished coxcomb than a Broadway exquisite, or a “Broadway swell,” which is the designation attached to him on the spot.

   • 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 42.

     So striking was his appearance that two exquisites, emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.

     'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite.

Translations

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

exquisite

1. inflection of exquisit:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Latin

Participle

exqu?s?te

1. vocative masculine singular of exqu?s?tus

References

• exquisite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Etymology

Clipping of beauty.

Pronunciation

• enPR: byo?ot, IPA^(key): /bju?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophones: butte, Bute, Butte

Noun

beaut (plural beauts)

1. (informal) Something or someone that is physically attractive.

2. (informal) Something that is a remarkable example of its type.

Synonyms

• (someone that is physically attractive): See Thesaurus:beautiful person

Adjective

beaut

1. (dialectal, especially Australia) Beautiful, splendid.
   • 1895, Elbridge Kingsley, Frederick Knab, Picturesque Worcester ...: Complete in Three Parts, page 40:

     An' there was posies all round Jim, He had a bran new suit, The first un that he ever had, An' everything was beaut. An' when the preacher told 'bout Jim— How ' twas he got the swipe— I saw most all them dandy swells A feelin' fer a wipe.

   • 1968, James Phillip McAuley, Quadrant:

     It was beaut to have him home again, and gee, you should have seen the bike he bought me from Paris. From the same factory as his own was made.

   • 1978, Kevin Gilbert, Living Black: Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert:

     She was very motherly towards me then and it was beaut. Before I was eighteen, there just wasn't any kind words. All I wanted to do was get away from there.

   • 1996, Madeleine St. John, A Pure Clear Light, 4th Estate, Limited

     "Yes, it was beaut.:

Further reading

• 2015, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Routledge (?ISBN), page 135:

Anagrams

• tubae