different between whin vs furze
whin
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?n, IPA(key): /w?n/
- (without the wine–whine merger) enPR: hw?n, IPA(key): /??n/
- Rhymes: -?n
- Homophone: win (accents with the wine-whine merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English whynne, from Old Norse hvein (“gorse, furze”) (compare Norwegian kvein (“bent grass”), Swedish ven (“bent grass”), dialectal hven (“swamp”)), apparently from hvein (“swampy land”), from Proto-Germanic *hwain?, *hwin- (“swamp; moor”), from Proto-Indo-European *??eyn- (“to soil; mud; filth”). Compare Latin caenum (“filth”), Latin inqu?n? (“to sully; soil”).
Noun
whin (countable and uncountable, plural whins)
- Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.).
- 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter, 1828, Thomas Park (editor), Works of the British Poets, Volume XX: The Poems of Robert Burns, page 65,
- By this time he was cross the ford, / Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; / And past the birks and meikle stane, / Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; / And through the whins, and by the cairn, / Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; / And near the thorn, aboon the well, / Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, A Scots Quair, 1995, Canongate Books, page 38,
- And sometimes they clambered down […] and saw the whin bushes climb black the white hills beside them and far and away the blink of lights across the moors where folk lay happed and warm.
- 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter, 1828, Thomas Park (editor), Works of the British Poets, Volume XX: The Poems of Robert Burns, page 65,
- The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)
Derived terms
- moor whin (Genista anglica)
- needle whin (Genista anglica)
- petty whin (Genista anglica)
- whin bruiser
- whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
- whin sparrow (Prunella modularis)
- whin thrush (Turdus iliacus)
Further reading
- Ulex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Noun
whin
- Whinstone.
Anagrams
- HNWI
Middle English
Verb
whin
- (Northern) Alternative form of winnen (“to win”)
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furze
English
Alternative forms
- firrs (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English firse, furs, from Old English fyrs (“furze, gorse, bramble”), from Old English fyres (“furze”), related to Old English f?r (“fire”); otherwise of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??(?)z/
- Rhymes: -??(?)z
Noun
furze (countable and uncountable, plural furzes)
- A thorny evergreen shrub, with yellow flowers, Ulex gen. et spp., of which Ulex europaeus is particularly common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland.
Synonyms
- gorse, whin
Derived terms
- dwarf furze (Ulex nanus)
- common furze (Ulex europaeus)
Translations
Further reading
- Ulex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [f??ts?], [f???ts?]
Verb
furze
- inflection of furzen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fu.??/
Noun
furze f
- dative/locative singular of fura
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