Facty vs Facey - What's the difference?
facty | facey |
(dated, informal) Consisting principally of facts
* 1883 November 2, Pall Mall Gazette'', page 5 i, as cited in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , 1st edition, volume 4, published 1901, page 15:
* {{quote-book, 1931, , The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, volume=2
, passage=The attribution is probably wrong, said Thomas, but the tradition of his being a painter was interesting if we considered the specially artistic'' character of the 3rd gospel, as against the purely ''facty nature of the other two synoptics, or the mystical nature of the 4th. }}
As adjectives the difference between facty and facey
is that facty is (dated|informal) consisting principally of facts while facey is cheeky; impudent.facty
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Adjective
(head)- A 'facty' article on 'The Political Condition of Spain'.
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