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Bobbin vs Polly - What's the difference?

bobbin | polly |

As a noun bobbin

is a spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.

As a proper noun polly is

a female given name, nickname for mary created by rhyming with molly.

bobbin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
  • * Jan. 8, 2004 , Machine Design Magazine , p. 108
    • Ignition coils using a bobbin molded from high-performance polyester withstand open-circuit bench tests to 70kV.
  • In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
    • Wind the bobbin , place it in the machine, and raise the thread.
  • The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
  • (haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.

    • Derived terms

    * bobbin-and-fly frame * bobbin lace * bobbinless * bobbinlike

    polly

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A female given name, nickname for Mary created by rhyming with Molly.
  • * 1860 Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell, The Lighthouse , Saunders, Otley and co. 1860, page 161:
    • "Well, Johnny," she replied, rather hurt, "if you want to call me something else, you may do so; but I will not have any outlandish, ridiculous names. I don't like it much, but if you really wish it, you may call me Polly ."
    Polly , indeed! Mary was getting more and more prosaic.
  • A common name for a pet parrot.

    • See also

    * Pollyanna * poly- * English diminutives of female given names