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Bottony vs Bottomy - What's the difference?

bottony | bottomy |

As adjectives the difference between bottony and bottomy

is that bottony is (heraldry) having a bud-like projection or a kind of trefoil at the end while bottomy is having a deep pitch.

bottony

English

Adjective

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  • (heraldry) Having a bud-like projection or a kind of trefoil at the end.

    • Related terms

    * cross bottony

    References

    * " bottony" in Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language , G. & C. Merriam, 1913

    bottomy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having a deep pitch
  • * {{quote-news, year=1990, date=November 9, author=Neil Tesser, title=Cassandra Wilson, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Describing Wilson's rich, bottomy contralto in musical terms doesn't quite work. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2000, date=October 20, author=Monica Kendrick, title=Spot Check, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=But though there's definitely power in the bottomy drumming of Angela Horton--whose setup includes a timpani--on their eponymously titled debut (on Blue Mountain's Black Dog label), the Satyrs usually choose not to, favoring eerie southern-gothic balladry with a Floydian psychedelic tinge and the occasional Middle Eastern twinge. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2003, date=November 21, author=Peter Margasak, title=Full-Blown Trio, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Burrell is at his fiery best, attacking bottomy chords with sledgehammer power--there's not a ragtime riff in sight. }}