Clifty vs Clift - What's the difference?
clifty | clift | Derived terms |
Characterised by cliffs; cliffy, craggy.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 3:
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
*:So downe he fell, as an huge rockie clift , / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away [...].
*1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 91:
*:so broad is the bay here, we could scarce perceive the great high clifts on the other side: by them we Anchored that night and called them Riccards Cliftes.
Clift is a derived term of clifty.
In _ rare lang=en terms the difference between clifty and clift
is that clifty is characterised by cliffs; cliffy, craggy while clift is a cliff.As an adjective clifty
is characterised by cliffs; cliffy, craggy.As a noun clift is
a cliff.clifty
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.