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Gaumy vs Gauzy - What's the difference?

gaumy | gauzy |

As adjectives the difference between gaumy and gauzy

is that gaumy is (us|and|uk|dialects) sticky; smeared with something sticky while gauzy is having the qualities of gauze; light, thin, transparent, hazy.

gaumy

English

Alternative forms

* gormy

Adjective

(-)
  • (US, and, UK, dialects) Sticky; smeared with something sticky.
  • * 1914 , Edwin Markham, Children in Bondage: A Complete and Careful Presentation :
    • The narrow, dark stairs are gaumy with paste, and everywhere open barrels of the mixture gave out the sickening, sour odor that is always in the nostrils of the workers.
  • * 1916 , Don Marquis, Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers , page 164:
    • And Fothergil Finch, rather gaumy
    With Cosmic cosmetics, was there,
    But the Swami went just as the Swami,
    After oiling the kinks in his hair.
    I said to Hermione: "Goddess! You're graceful, you're Greek, you're a rose, "
  • * 1946 , Jessie Scott, The Charity Ball , page 259:
    • Far from being gaumy with pitch, they looked rather remarkably smooth and well manicured.

    gauzy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • having the qualities of gauze; light, thin, transparent, hazy
  • figuratively light, giving the effect of haze

    • Quotations

    * 2003': Although the books are scored in different keys—Clinton’s generally attempts to be '''gauzy and warm, Blumenthal’s is edgy and cold—their underlying refrain is the same. — ''The New Yorker , 14 July 2003