different between musk vs lusk

English

Etymology

From Middle English muske, borrowed from Old French musc, from Late Latin muscus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (móskhos), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mwšk' /mušk/) whence Persian ???? (mošk). Ultimately from Sanskrit ????? (mu?ka, “testicle”), the shape of the gland of animals secreting the substance being compared to human testicles, a diminutive of ???? (m??, “mouse”), the shape of human testicles being compared to mice, from Proto-Indo-European *muh?s (“mouse”). Cognate with mouse.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m?sk/
• Rhymes: -?sk
• Homophone: MuSK

Noun

musk (countable and uncountable, plural musks)

1. A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
2. A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet.
3. A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above.
4. The odour of musk.
5. The musk deer (genus Moschus).
6. The musk plant (Mimulus moschatus).
7. A plant of the genus Erodium (Erodium moschatum); the musky heronsbill.
8. A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.
9. (slang, colloquial, vulgar) The scent of human genitalia when aroused or unwashed.

   I was so excited I could smell my own musk.

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Translations

Verb

musk (third-person singular simple present musks, present participle musking, simple past and past participle musked)

1. (transitive) To perfume with musk.

Anagrams

• skum

Middle English

Noun

musk

1. Alternative form of muske

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