different between josh vs abbey

English

Etymology

Of disputed origin, but first attested in the mid-19th century as a verb. The earliest example is capitalized, so it is likely a nickname of the proper name Joshua (see more there). Perhaps it was taken as a typical name of an old farmer.

Noun

josh (plural joshes)

1. An instance of good-natured banter.

Verb

josh (third-person singular simple present joshes, present participle joshing, simple past and past participle joshed)

1. (transitive) To tease someone in a kindly or friendly fashion.
2. (intransitive) To make or exchange good-natured jokes.
   • 1902: We are old friends, did I not tell you? So I may, what you Americans call, josh with him. — Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows
   • 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (in The Guardian, 13 September 2013)[1]

     Boris, it seems, is taking it in this spirit, joshing beneath his ever-redeeming barnet that Labour's opposition to military action in Syria is a fey stance that he, as GQ politician of the year, would never be guilty of.

Translations

Derived terms

• josher
• joshingly

References

• “josh” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *j?udsja, from Proto-Indo-European *Hyewd?- (compare Lithuanian jáudinti (“to excite, arouse”), Polish judzi? (“to incite”), Latin jubere (“to order”)).

Verb

josh (first-person singular past tense josha, participle joshur)

1. to fondle, caress
2. to entice, seduce

Derived terms

• joshë

English

Etymology

From A.D. 1250 in Middle English abbey, abbeye (“convent headed by an abbot”) (compare archaic English abbaye), itself borrowed from Old French abaïe, abbaïe, abeïe, abbeïe (Modern French abbaye) from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abb?tia, from Classical Latin abb?s (“abbot”). Doublet of abbacy. See abbot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æb.i/
• Rhymes: -æbi

Noun

abbey (plural abbeys)

1. The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]
2. A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]

3. The church of a monastery. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]
4. (British) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.[Mid 16^th century.]

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• cloister
• convent
• friary
• monastery
• nunnery
• priory

References

• abbey in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• bebay

Middle English

Alternative forms

• abbeye, abbeie, abbay, abbegh

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French abaie; from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abb?tia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?b?i?(?)/, /a?bi?(?)/

Noun

abbey (plural abbeyes)

1. An abbey (a building or monastic institution).
2. The church located inside a monastery.
3. (rare) Abbotship; abbacy.

Descendants

• English: abbey
• Scots: abbey, aibey

References

• “abbeie, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.