What's the difference between busk and lusk?

Busk


Definition:

  • (n.) A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.
  • (v. t. & i.) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
  • (v. t. & i.) To go; to direct one's course.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But then came a challenge I couldn't turn down – busking outside Camden tube station with Billy Bragg , one of my musical and political heroes, who was happy to tutor and coax me through our favourite playlist.
  • (2) Raffles hitch-hiked ahead of the troupe, often sleeping rough, to busk for new bookings.
  • (3) Simply because he is not begging on a street corner (except when he's busking, which he does with glorious chutzpah) or drooling with a spent needle hanging from his arm, you presume he is doing fine.
  • (4) Get good at busking and later, when you're playing the Pyramid stage, you know you won't be fazed.
  • (5) A harpist takes a break from busking in a bustling Carmarthen shopping street to discuss two of his great passions: music and politics.
  • (6) I put on my performance face, threw my head back, and enjoyed myself – but safe in the knowledge that standing beside me on my right hand side was a man with decades of busking experience and a natural affinity with the crowd.
  • (7) I had always wanted to try busking but found the idea daunting – especially doing it alone.
  • (8) Updated at 11.10am BST 10.57am BST And now, it's time for Ed Miliband.... Jon Snow is just busking for a moment or two ahead of Ed Miliband coming on to the stage.
  • (9) "I had to have six frets on my guitar replaced – they were completely worn out from busking to the signing queue.
  • (10) In Galway, I went out busking on the streets, singing the filthiest, most debauched lyrics I could think of to see if anyone would understand.
  • (11) You started busking at the age of 15 and developed a street persona called Lippo.
  • (12) It didn't help that the Sunday before our busking "date", disaster struck; I lost my voice.
  • (13) The voice When you're busking, you're competing with the noise of the street, the traffic, and you're trying to get the attention of people who are in a hurry.
  • (14) They were busking and making good money, so Heaton was shocked when he learned they were all quitting to go to university.
  • (15) In 1968, aged 17, I quit school (in Ontario, Canada) and hitchhiked all over north America, busking and staying with people I met.
  • (16) We were still in a small room, effectively busking a script, but it was starting to grow.
  • (17) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian "So it's OK, for example, to sit around as long as you are in a cafe or in a designated place where certain restful activities such as drinking a frappucino should take place but not activities like busking, protesting or skateboarding.
  • (18) There were storytellers, drawing lessons, and an area for busking and debating.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Benjamin Zephaniah in Lincolnshire: ‘I miss the multiculturalism of London.’ Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian There’s a wonderful little town where I live and I love the independent shops, old-fashioned sweet shops run by little old ladies, an entertainer on the street just for the sake of it, not necessarily busking.
  • (20) After six years, I moved back to Canada, busking again and earning enough to pay my rent.

Lusk


Definition:

  • (a.) Lazy; slothful.
  • (n.) A lazy fellow; a lubber.
  • (v. i.) To be idle or unemployed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Thursday, having spent most of the day fending off allegations relating to the SIS issue, Key told media: “I think there’s a real risk that a hacker, and people with a leftwing agenda, are trying to take an election off New Zealanders.” While Ede, Lusk and Collins have avoided talking to media, Slater, the son of a former National party president, has gone on the offensive.
  • (2) Days before the polls took place, the EU’s foreign minister, Federica Mogherini, said : “The upcoming elections cannot produce a credible result with legitimacy throughout the country.” “By saying the elections weren’t free and fair, [western governments] are actually saying the government is no longer legitimate by implication, which is very strong stuff in their terms,” said Gillian Lusk, associate editor of Africa Confidential .
  • (3) This table, developed by Lusk in 1924, was derived from biochemical and physical data that are now outdated.
  • (4) On the basis of the ratio of total caloric intake to resting energy expenditure (REE), the nonprotein respiratory quotient (npRQ), and, when appropriate, Lusk's table for analysis of the oxidation of mixtures of carbohydrate and fat, the patients could be categorized into three groups.
  • (5) Robert Lusk, director of the Natural Shoe Store, the UK distributors of Birkenstocks, talks like a man in need of shiatsu, or at least a few hundred extra boxes of sandals.
  • (6) Other published exchanges allegedly show Slater and his associate, political consultant Simon Lusk, discussing smear campaigns to help a client win a National candidate selection, the blackmail of a sitting MP (it never happened, the MP has since insisted) and the description of those forced from their homes after the Christchurch earthquake as “scum”.
  • (7) Something that doesn’t come across in the news coverage about Dirty Politics, and Cameron Slater, Jason Ede, Jordan Williams, Simon Lusk et al is just how fucking awful these people are.
  • (8) Lusk's bemusement at the sandals' reinvention is understandable, given their inauspiciously stolid beginnings.
  • (9) Referring to great scientists--Harvey, Boerhaave, Black, Priestley, Scheele, Lavoisier, Liebig, Pettenkofer, Rubner, Voit, Lusk, DuBois--the change in paradigm connected with the concepts of 'life', 'substrate intake' and 'body heat' and their underlying natural phenomena is outlined.
  • (10) "Birkenstocks are popular across the globe," Lusk adds, "but I think this kind of mass hysteria is a peculiarly British phenomenon.
  • (11) In conclusion a citation of the famous American physiologist Graham Lusk (1866-1932) is mentioned from the year 1906, who praised the scientific priority of the German medical research.
  • (12) Equivalent npRQ values in patients who were receiving amino acids, dextrose, and lipids were determined by using Lusk's table and the percentage of total caloric intake as fat.

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