Shibboleth was the word which, in Judges 12, the Ephraimites fleeing from the Gileadites could not correctly pronounce when tested, thus giving away their identity to Jephthah as his enemies it typically applies to a fixed usage (as a word, phrase, or speech sound) whose employment identifies a person as belonging to a particular party, class, profession, ethnic group, or time.
As time went on, his earlier leanings grew more definite he spent on pleasure far more than he could afford, and his conduct became a byword in the neighborhood.Catchword, byword, shibboleth, slogan mean a phrase that catches the eye or the ear and is repeated so often that it becomes a formula.Ĭatchword usually applies to a phrase that serves as the formula or identification mark of an emotionally charged subject (as a school of thought, a political party, or a cause) and that is often used by those who have only a superficial knowledge of the subject and its philosophy and basic tenets.īyword sometimes denotes a significant phrase that is repeated far and wide until it has become a proverb. The more usual sense is a person or thing that has become proverbial as the type of certain evil, ludicrous, or shameful characteristics and whose name, therefore, has become the object of concentrated scorn or contempt. Now he could only lie back in his car, while the sailorman, driving him, obeyed the reckless instincts which have made him and his comrades a byword for devotion. Again, I remember that, when I was a schoolmaster, one of my colleagues was a perfect byword for the disorder and noise that prevailed in his form. #BYWORD VS. WRITE FULL#
Your story will be given to the press in full your name will be a byword throughout the land, an example, and while you are convalescing you will remain a prisoner. So the war went on between players and payers, and "Merrie England" became a byword of reproach in the comity of nations. Even after this check the parish continued to increase rapidly, and by the early part of the last century was a byword for all that was squalid and filthy. County society has become a byword for the old-fashioned and the humdrum, for bad living, bad manners, and bad taste. Suffice it that he was torn asunder by wild horses, and his name remains in France a byword for all disloyalty and treachery. He built himself a fine house out of stone, and the life he led in it was a scandal and a byword everywhere. Through her he had become disgraced, through her he had become the byword of all who had known him. Harvard overconfidence was a byword when he was in college, and it was overconfidence which he feared now. Here, then, was the renowned slaver, the man whose name was a byword from Zanzibar to Morocco. 
I might fail indeed to save the Master, but I could not miss to make a byword of my lord. Was he so weak, then, as to return to the poison that had made him the byword of clodhoppers?. No doubt they made the name a byword and a subject for ribald jest in the waterfront bars. In fifteen minutes your names shall be a byword and a hissing among the nations. It had remained for the last scion of the old stock to furnish a byword for slackness.
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