different between gurt vs gust

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????t/
• (West Country, UK) IPA^(key): /????t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?????t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

Origin obscure. Possibly a metathesis of gutter.

Noun

gurt (plural gurts)

1. (mining) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.

Etymology 2

From Middle English girt, gert, a metathetic variant of gret (“great”). More at great.

Alternative forms

• gert
• girt

Adjective

gurt

1. (Britain dialect, West Country) Pronunciation spelling of great.

   Then I opens the cupboard door and I sees a gurt big spider looking up at me.

   • 1842, The Sportsman, Volume VI: January to June, page 103,

     Zo ?e bought a slap-up rod and tackle, and, ev coose, a darn gurt book vull o? vlies — talk?d about ketchin? whackin? trout, and me — ap a salmon the fust time.

   • 1845, Douglas Jerrold (editor), Shilling Magazine, Volume II: July to December, page 416,

     “That was the word,” said Farmer Forder. “Hav?n pocketed the tuppunce, the chap as show?d off the clock opened the case, and let me zee the works of ?un, and wonderful works they was : wheels within wheels, and all sorts o? crinkum-crankums, like a gurt puzzle. […] ”

   • “Down there, sir, under that gurt oak-tree.”

     Not a bird, however, was to be found.

References

Anagrams

• trug, turg

Yola

Alternative forms

• grut

Etymology

From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-Germanic *grut?.

Noun

gurt (plural gurthes)

1. coarse oatmeal

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

Apparently from an unrecorded Middle English *gust, from Old Norse gustr (“a gust, blast”), from Proto-Germanic *gustiz, from Proto-Indo-European *??ew-. Related to Old Norse gusa (“to gush forth”), Old High German gussa (“flood”), Middle English guschen (> English gush).The English word was not recorded before Shakespeare.

Noun

gust (plural gusts)

1. A strong, abrupt rush of wind.

   Synonym: windflaw

2. (by extension) Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.).
   • 1609 (revised 1625), Francis Bacon, De Sapientia Veterum ('Wisdom of the Ancients')

     they are merely driven about by every sudden gust and impulse of the mind

Translations

Verb

gust (third-person singular simple present gusts, present participle gusting, simple past and past participle gusted)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To blow in gusts.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English gust, guste, from Latin gustus (“taste”) and Old French gust, goust.

Noun

gust (uncountable)

1. (archaic) The physiological faculty of taste.
2. Relish, enjoyment, appreciation.
   • 1651, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-sermons for the winter half-year, "The Spirit of Grace"

     An ox will relish the tender flesh of kids with as much gust and appetite.

   • 1942: ‘Yes, indeed,’ said Sava with solemn gust. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 1050)
3. Intellectual taste; fancy.
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients.

Etymology 3

From Middle English gusten (“to taste, have a taste for”), from the noun (see above)).

Verb

gust (third-person singular simple present gusts, present participle gusting, simple past and past participle gusted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To taste.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To have a relish for.

Related terms

• disgust

Anagrams

• GUTs, guts, tugs

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin gustus, from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *?éwstus. First attested in the 14th century,, it was possibly a semi-learned word or early borrowing; compare the sound changes in the inherited Occitan gost, Portuguese gosto, and French goût.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /??ust/

Noun

gust m (plural gusts or gustos)

1. taste (clarification of this definition is needed)

Derived terms

Related terms

• gustar

Further reading

• “gust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gust” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gust” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

References

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin gustus, from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *?éwstus. Possibly a borrowing or semi-learned term.

Noun

gust m (plural gusts)

1. relish, zest, enjoyment
2. taste

Synonyms

• (taste): savôr

Derived terms

• gustôs

Related terms

• gustâ

Icelandic

Noun

gust

1. indefinite accusative singular of gustur

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gustus, ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *?éwstus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ust/

Noun

gust m inan (diminutive gu?cik)

1. taste, personal preference

Declension

Derived terms

• gustowa?
• gustowny

Further reading

• gust in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ust/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin gustus, from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *?éwstus.

Noun

gust n (plural gusturi)

1. taste

Declension

Derived terms

• gustos

Related terms

• gusta
• gustare

See also

• savoare

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin (mensis) augustus (through Vulgar Latin *agustus). Compare also Albanian gusht (“August”).

Alternative forms

• agust

Noun

gust m (uncountable)

1. (popular/folk usage, rare) August

Synonyms

• august (standard/most common)
• gustar (popular/folk name)
• m?s?lar (popular/folk name)

Derived terms

• gustar

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *g?st?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?û?st/

Adjective

g?st (definite g?st?, comparative g?š??, Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. dense

Declension

Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

• kust

Noun

gust m

1. horror, horrible feeling upon witnessing something