different between boos vs loos

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?z/
• Homophone: booze

Noun

boos

1. plural of boo

Verb

boos

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of boo

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bôse, from Old Dutch b?si, from Proto-Germanic *bausuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?s/
• Hyphenation: boos
• Rhymes: -o?s

Adjective

boos (comparative bozer, superlative meest boos or boost)

1. mad, angry
2. upset, frustrated
3. evil

   Er zijn boze geesten in deze bossen. - There are evil spirits in these forests.

Inflection

Synonyms

• toornig

Derived terms

• boosheid

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo?oz, IPA^(key): /lu?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z
• Homophone: lose

Noun

loos

1. plural of loo

Etymology 2

From Middle English l?s (“reputation, renown, fame, infamy, rumor, news”), from Old French los, from Latin laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”). Compare laud.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo?os, IPA^(key): /lu?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s
• Homophone: loose

Noun

loos (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Praise, fame, reputation.

   • Hercules that had the grete loos

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, vi, xii, 12

     That much he feared, least reprochfull blame

     With foule dishonour him mote blot therefore;

     Besides the losse of so much loos and fame,

     As through the world thereby should glorifie his name.

Anagrams

• OOLs, Oslo, sloo, solo, sool

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *llu?d, from Proto-Celtic *?l?tos.

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [lo?z]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [lu?z]

Adjective

loos

1. grey

See also

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?s/
• Hyphenation: loos
• Rhymes: -o?s

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch loos, from Old Dutch *l?s, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz.

Adjective

loos (comparative lozer, superlative meest loos or loost)

1. blank, empty
2. idle
3. amiss, wrong, problematic
4. sly, cunning
5. (obsolete) clever, insightful

Inflection

Derived terms

• loosheid

See also

• -loos

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

loos

1. first-person singular present indicative of lozen
2. imperative of lozen

Anagrams

• Oslo

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *l?s (attested only in compounds as -l?s), from Proto-West Germanic *laus. More at lease, loose.

Adjective

loos

1. empty