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Bose vs Bode - What's the difference?

bose | bode |

As a verb bose

is .

As a proper noun bode is

.

bose

English

Verb

(bos)
  • To strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.
  • *

    • Related terms

    * boser ----

    bode

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) boden, from (etyl) ). : Since 1740 also a shortening of forebode

    Verb

    (bod)
  • To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
  • To foreshow something; to augur.
  • * Dryden
    • Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.
    Derived terms
    * bodement

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An omen; a foreshadowing.
  • * Chaucer
    • The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
  • (obsolete, or, dialect) A bid; an offer.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • A messenger; a herald.
    • (Robertson)
  • A stop; a halting; delay.

    • Etymology 2

    *

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bide)
  • * Tennyson
    • There that night they bode .

    References

    * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=bode&searchmode=none]

    Anagrams

    * English irregular simple past forms ----