What's the difference between giglet and gimlet?

Giglet


Definition:

  • (n.) A wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl.

Example Sentences:

Gimlet


Definition:

  • (n.) A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.
  • (v. t.) To pierce or make with a gimlet.
  • (v. t.) To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This was soon accompanied by other “medicinal” drinks such as the gimlet, to avoid scurvy on ship, and pink gin, which was said to help seasickness.
  • (2) The gimlet-eyed punter can simply enquire: "You'd put money on that, would you?"
  • (3) She was never off the telephone to rich potential backers and became notorious for her gimlet-eyed vetting of campaign staff.
  • (4) Bitcoin is a currency created years ago by an obscure hacker in the spirit of subversion, to trade goods while dodging the gimlet eye of financial regulators.
  • (5) A steady focus on the numbers and a demeanour so serious it can verge on the gimlet-eyed has helped.
  • (6) The movie Spotlight charts a 2001 investigation of sexual abuse and cover-ups in the Catholic church by the Boston Globe under the editorship of Baron, played with gimlet-minded intensity by Liev Schreiber.
  • (7) A variety of prosthetic techniques may be incorporated into the Gimlet system, and the implants themselves can be used in a number of locations and employed for multiple purposes.
  • (8) The Observer's critic singled out Rory Kinnear's "caustic, exact, gimlet-sharp prince", while the Financial Times found an unselfconscious silliness in the hero's antics.
  • (9) Britain's two greatest living painters spent 3 months in each other's company, Freud sitting for Hockney for four hours before he became the subject of Freud's gimlet eye for considerably longer: 120 hours.
  • (10) And, without wishing to take anything away from Mo Farah and other sporting heroes, such across-the-board outperformance was largely thanks to record investment, gimlet-eyed targeting and dogged planning.
  • (11) Goldin, best known for her gimlet portraits of friends and lovers addled by drugs or riven with Aids, has never retreated from showing sex at its most brutal and banal extremes.
  • (12) A drill or gimlet with a small hole in the tip was employed to bore a hole in the sternum.

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