Dewy vs Dey - What's the difference?
dewy | dey |
Covered by dew.
Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.
* 1831 , :
The title given to the ruler of the (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
*1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 29:
*:the reigning Dey of Algiers (half of whose twenty-eight predecessors are said to have met violent ends) lost his temper with the French consul, struck him in the face with a fly-whisk, and called him ‘a wicked, faithless, idol-worshipping rascal’.
As an adjective dewy
is covered by dew.As a proper noun dey is
the tenth solar month of the persian calendar.dewy
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The dewy grass was too slick for football.
- In the dewy fog, it was cold and damp.
- At midnight, in the month of June,
I stand beneath the mystic moon.
An opiate vapor, dewy , dim,
Exhales from out her golden rim