What's the difference between hubby and husband?

Hubby


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of hubs or protuberances; as, a road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She looks delighted, but hubby Brian May is looking proper grumpy in the audience.
  • (2) It's the kind of thing that makes a better news story – vice girl hubby in nanny baby snatch drama – than it does plot line, spread over 10 months like muck on a field.
  • (3) Look at it, right where hubby's left breast pocket would be.
  • (4) I'm panicking as my mortgage is due to be paid and my hubby's wage is in tomorrow [29 June].
  • (5) Absolutely the vital organising body for London’s whole underground movement – the UFO and Middle Earth – production credits on the Floyd’s first single Arnold Layne, Incredible String Band svengali, the Fairports, of course … the list is endless and positively oozing with a kind of dead-eye sense of good taste and (a hackneyed word, sure, but most relevant here, I’d say) integrity easing up even to contemporary projects like that marvellous Hendrix movie and production credits for Maria (and currently ex-hubby Paul Butterfield’s Better Days luminary, Geoff) Muldaur.
  • (6) The Labour party, which has by far the best record on the representation of women, nevertheless hid them away: Harriet Harman, now its second female "acting" leader, was barely seen; nor Yvette Cooper – pressed by Jeremy Paxman about the content of her "pillow talk" with husband Ed Balls and now asked repeatedly if her hubby is standing for leader; nor Margaret Hodge, who made the best speech of election night on defeating the BNP in Barking.
  • (7) It renamed its Chubby Hubby flavour to Hubby Hubby and people loved it.
  • (8) The fact that the federal Coalition managed to talk about the goods and services tax, the Medicare co-payment, industrial relations changes, knighting the Queen’s hubby and its own leadership woes in just over three weeks when most of them were on leave really beggars belief.
  • (9) When the wife would hear her hubby, she would take his coat and shoes, feed him."
  • (10) If she has personal strife of any kind, or frets about her "work-life balance", or struggles to pick up her hubby's dry-cleaning in between extraditing terrorists, you wouldn't know.
  • (11) It’s just self-contrived because her hubby didn’t get a nomination.” Hubert had previously called out Pinkett Smith for losing perspective.

Husband


Definition:

  • (n.) The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
  • (n.) A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
  • (n.) One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
  • (n.) A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
  • (n.) The male of a pair of animals.
  • (v. t.) To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
  • (v. t.) To cultivate, as land; to till.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a husband.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
  • (2) Some 10 years after arriving in Sheffield with her husband and three-year-old son, Bazzie is a success story.
  • (3) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
  • (4) Prostitute visit is a main risk factor, irrespective of whether the husband had a history of sexually transmitted diseases or not.
  • (5) In each of the four study sites, focus group discussions or in-depth interviews were held with potential acceptors, current NORPLANT users, discontinuers, husbands of women in these three groups, and service providers.
  • (6) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
  • (7) His verdict of her that "she danced on the graves of her husband's victims.
  • (8) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
  • (9) Byrom had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last week for hiring a man to shoot dead her abusive husband, Edward, at their home in Iuka in June 1999.
  • (10) MLC's were carried out between the cells from the serum donor and her husband in the presence of nonimmune AB serum and the test serum.
  • (11) Last week the prosecution dropped a series of allegations that Gail Sheridan, also 46, had lied on her husband's behalf by providing a series of false alibis to cover up his affairs and trips to Cupids.
  • (12) The director of the Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Alexandra Hildebrandt, keeps a tally started by her late husband Rainer, the museum’s founder, which currently lists 1,720 victims.
  • (13) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
  • (14) [Disclosure: Newly-elected Elise Stefanik, the youngest woman elected to Congress, is a college friend of my husband’s.]
  • (15) According to calculations by the Resolution Foundation, a couple with two children in which the husband works full-time and the wife works part-time on or just above minimum wage stand to lose a total of £720 a year by 2020.
  • (16) ‘It’s hard to understand why we have all had to go through this’ – Angelene Wright, 66, from Lincolnshire I’m a carer for my 64-year-old husband who is in the final stages of multiple sclerosis.
  • (17) Braff will direct and play the lead role of a father, actor and husband struggling to find his identity.
  • (18) The wife shared four major histocompatibility (HLA) antigens with her husband.
  • (19) Husband's self-care activities, uncertainty, and husband's physical and mental symptoms were concerns that spouses frequently reported at T2.
  • (20) My husband believes in human rights, democracy and transparency.

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