different between gush vs stoor

English

Etymology

From Middle English guschen, gusshen, gosshien, perhaps from Middle Dutch guysen (“to flow out with a gurgling sound, gush”) or Old Norse gusa (“to gush”), ultimately imitative.

Compare Old Norse geysa (“to gush”), German gießen (“to pour”), Old English ??otan ("to pour"; > English yote). Related to gust.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

gush (plural gushes)

1. A sudden rapid outflow.
   • 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger

     There was a cartoon woman in an apron on the front. She stood with one hand on her hip while she used the other hand to pour a gush of drain-cleaner into something that was either an industrial sink or Orson Welles's bidet.

Translations

Verb

gush (third-person singular simple present gushes, present participle gushing, simple past and past participle gushed)

1. (intransitive, also figuratively) To flow forth suddenly, in great volume.
2. (transitive, also figuratively) To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume.
   • 1993, Brian Lumley, Blood Brothers, Macmillan (?ISBN), page 119:

     The other was no longer capable of controlling his anger; his parasite creature amplified his passion by ten; his jaws cracked open and his great mouth gushed blood from torn gums as teeth grew out of them like bone sickles.

   • 2001, Larry L. Miller, Tennessee Place-names, Indiana University Press (?ISBN), page 196:

     A beautiful spring gushed water from the ground in this mountainous sector of Polk County, inspiring the name of the place.

3. (intransitive, especially of a woman) To ejaculate during orgasm.
   • 2008, Anya Bast, The Chosen Sin, Penguin (?ISBN), page 154:

     Her orgasm exploded over her, making her writhe and cry out his name. She gushed over his hand, her cunt gripping and releasing his invading fingers.

   • 2009, Emma Holly, Kissing Midnight, Penguin (?ISBN):

     Somehow, this made his ejaculations all the more exciting, sending hot tingles streaking through her as he gushed.

   • 2014, Stewart N. Johnson, Parthian Stranger 2 Conspiracy, Trafford Publishing (?ISBN):

     […] she pulled off an amazing orgasm, one after another, she gushed with force, […]

   • 2017, Cara McKinnon, Memories of Magic, Stars and Stone Books (?ISBN):

     Odd. She'd never managed to do that to herself before—to climax so hard she gushed. Sometimes her sex partners didn't satisfy her as well as she could on her own, but her most intense orgasms had always been with others.

4. (intransitive, transitive, figuratively) To make an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment.
   • 1911, Thompson Buchanan, Making People Happy, page 14:

     Miss Johnson gushed approval with her usual air of coquettish superiority.

   • 2010, Pat Williams, Jim Denney, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN):

     Randy Thornton, a producer with Walt Disney Records, put it this way: “Walt was not a man who gushed praise. His biggest words of approval were, 'That'll work.'

   • 2017, Judson G. Everitt, Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher, Rutgers University Press (?ISBN):

     Nellie routinely gushed praise to students for good performance whereas Frank was much more sparing in praising students.

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• Shug, hugs, shug

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *gunša, close to Lithuanian gùžas (“knag”), Old Norse kjuka (“ankle”) and Old Church Slavonic gust? (gust?, “thick, dense”).

Noun

gush f (definite singular gusha)

1. neck, Adam's apple

Related terms

• gungë
• kungull

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /st??/

Etymology 1

From Middle English storen, *sturien, from Old English *storian, variant of styrian (“to stir, move”), from Proto-Germanic *stur?n? (“to turn, disturb”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Dutch storen (“to disturb”), Middle Low German stören (“to stir”), German stören (“to disturb”), dialectal German sturen (“to poke, root”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian shtir (“to ford, wade across”). See stir.

Alternative forms

• stour

Verb

stoor (third-person singular simple present stoors, present participle stooring, simple past and past participle stoored)

1. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To move; stir.
2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To move actively; keep stirring.
3. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc.
4. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To stir up, as liquor.
5. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high.
6. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To sprinkle.

Noun

stoor (plural stoors)

1. (Britain dialectal) Stir; bustle; agitation; contention.
2. (Britain dialectal) A gush of water.
3. (Britain dialectal) Spray.
4. (Britain dialectal) A sufficient quantity of yeast for brewing.

Derived terms

• stoorey
• stoory

Etymology 2

See stour.

Adjective

stoor (comparative stoorer or more stoor, superlative stoorest or most stoor)

1. Alternative form of stour

Derived terms

• stoorness

Anagrams

• Sorto, Toors, ostro, roost, roots, rotos, toros, torso

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English store.

Verb

stoor (present stoor, present participle stoorende, past participle gestoor)

1. (transitive) to store, to storage
2. (transitive, intransitive) to save, to make a savestate (of)

Noun

stoor (plural [please provide])

1. shop, store
2. storage, saving

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sto?r/
• Rhymes: -o?r

Verb

stoor

1. first-person singular present indicative of storen
2. imperative of storen

Anagrams

• soort

Middle English

Adjective

stoor

1. Alternative spelling of stour (large)