Affray vs Mle - What's the difference?
affray | mle |
The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
A tumultuous assault or quarrel.
The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.
To startle from quiet; to alarm.
* Chaucer
To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
* Shakespeare
(linguistics)
* ante'' 2009 : Ignacio Ramos, A. Jesús Moya Guijarro, and José Ignacio Albentosa Hernández [eds.], ''New Trends in English Teacher Education ,
(planetology, areology)
As a noun affray
is the act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.As a verb affray
is to startle from quiet; to alarm.affray
English
Noun
(en noun)- The affray in the busy marketplace caused great terror and disorder.
Synonyms
* fray, brawl. * alarm, terror, fright.Verb
(en verb)- Smale foules a great heap / That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep.
- That voice doth us affray .
mle
English
Initialism
(Initialism) (en-initialism)page 209] ([http://publicaciones.uclm.es/index.php?action=module&path_module=modules_Product_index&id_product=847 Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; ISBN 9788484276531)
- In terms of its characteristics, MLE is anchored to a large extent in Jamaican Creole, throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s a competitor to Cockney. But Kerswill et al report that it has now encompassed and synthesized elements of everything from Cockney and African English to Hindi, Bangladeshi languages and Arabic. For this reasons it is sometimes called, erroneously, “Hinglish” or “Jafaican”.