2022-01-04 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – B – Bust – burst
2022-01-04
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – B – Bust – burst
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง bust = “BUHST”
ออกเสียง burst = “BURST”
Dictionary.com:
HISTORICAL USAGE OF BUST
Historically bust is derived from a dialect pronunciation of burst
and is related to it much as cuss is related to curse.
Bust is both a noun and a verb and has a wide range of meanings
for both uses.
Many are slang or informal.
A few, as “a decline in economic conditions, depression,” are standard.
Dictionary.com:
MORE ABOUT BUST
What does or bust mean?
The phrase or bust is used when someone is
pursuing an end no matter what, even if they fail trying.
Saying
New York City or bust, for example,
means someone is doing absolutely everything to go there.
How is or bust pronounced?
[ awr buhst ]
Where does or bust come from?
The phrase or bust may be associated with hitchhikers
who’d write it on the signs they’d hold on the side of the highway
while waiting for someone to offer them a ride (e.g., Vegas or bust),
but the expression was apparently first popularized in the Colorado gold rush of the mid-1800s.
Following the discovery of gold in what is now Englewood, Colorado, people with little or nothing to lose began heading to an area of the state known as Pike’s Peak Country hoping to strike it rich.
Around the 1850–60s, some of these dreamers
began using the phrase Pike’s Peak or bust
as they boarded up their homes and headed west through unforgiving weather and terrain—all for that sweet, sweet gold.
These gold-seekers didn’t invent the phrase, though.
It’s recorded as early as the 1830s.
Bust itself is a variant of burst,
and or bust implies that one will violently break down
or fall to pieces before giving up on their goal.
During the 2016 Democratic primaries,
some die-hard supporters of the progressive Democratic candidate
Bernie Sanders started an effort called Bernie or Bust.
Some of these people pledged that they would not vote for Hillary Clinton if she won the Democratic nomination.
Instead, they would write in Sanders, vote for a third-party candidate, or not vote.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary,
usage:
Historically bust is derived from a dialect pronunciation of burst and is related to it much as cuss is related to curse.
As both noun and verb bust has a wide range of meanings.
A few, as “a decline in economic conditions, depression,” are standard.
Collins COBUILD English Usage
Breast – bust - bosom
1. 'breast'
A woman's breasts are the two soft, round pieces of flesh
on her chest that can produce milk to feed a baby.
...a beggar girl with a baby at her breast.
...women with small breasts.
2. 'bust'
A woman's breasts can be referred to as her bust,
especially when you are talking about their size.
Note that bust refers to both breasts together.
You do not talk about a woman's 'busts'.
She has a very large bust.
Bust is also used to talk about the measurement
around the top part of a woman's body at the level of her breasts.
'Bust 34' means that the garment is a size 12.
3. 'bosom'
A woman's breasts can also be referred to as her bosom /'bʊzəm/.
This is an old-fashioned or literary word.
...hugging the cat to her bosom.
bust
Bust can be a verb, an adjective, or a noun.
The past tense and past participle of the verb is either bust or busted.
1. used as a verb
If you bust something, you break or damage it so badly that it cannot be used.
Note that you only use bust with this meaning in conversation.
You do not use it in formal writing.
She found out about Jack busting the double-bass.
In informal English, if someone is busted, the police arrest them.
They were busted for possession of cannabis.
2. used as an adjective
In conversation,
if you say that something is bust, you mean that it is broken or very badly damaged.
That clock's been bust for weeks.
Note that in American English, the adjective is busted not 'bust'.
There he found a small writing table with a busted leg.
If a company goes bust, it loses so much money
that it is forced to close down.
You do not use this expression in formal English.
The company almost went bust in February.
3. used as a noun
A woman's bust is her breasts.
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions
Bust – burst
The principal parts of burst are burst, burst, burst.
As verb forms, bust and busted are illiterates.
“To get busted” (to be arrested”),
“to go bust” (to become bankrupt”)
“To bust up” (to disagree,” “to break up”)
And “a bust” (“failure”) are slang expressions.
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