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Cliff vs Clifty - What's the difference?

cliff | clifty |

As a proper noun cliff

is a diminutive of the male given name clifford .

As an adjective clifty is

characterised by cliffs; cliffy, craggy.

cliff

English

(wikipedia cliff)

Etymology 1

(etyl) clif .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
    • Synonyms
    * precipice
    Derived terms
    * cliff swallow * cliff-face * cliffed * cliffhanger * cliffing * cliffy

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music)
    • (Webster 1913)

    clifty

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characterised by cliffs; cliffy, craggy.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 3:
    • Down the clifty gorge – its walls of solid sandstone, cloven to the bare heart of the range by the fierce momentum of the waters – the bounding river came.