Downy vs Gent - What's the difference?
downy | gent |
Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers.
(obsolete) Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.
* Chaucer
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
(obsolete) neat; pretty; elegant
* Spenser
As an adjective downy
is having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers.As a proper noun gent is
or gent can be ghent.downy
English
Adjective
(er)- The chick's downy coat of feathers formed almost immediately to keep it warm.
gent
English
Etymology 1
From gentleman .Etymology 2
From (etyl) gent, ultimately from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- A knight [who] was fair and gent .
- He lou'd, as was his lot, a Ladie gent , / That him againe lou'd in the least degree [...].
- Her body gent and small.