Glowy vs Shiny - What's the difference?
glowy | shiny |
glowing
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 27, author=Maureen Dowd, title=Desperately Seeking Street Cred, work=New York Times
, passage=Hillary grows more and more glowy as Obama grows more and more wan. }} Reflecting light.
* :
Emitting light.
(colloquial) Excellent; remarkable.
(obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
* (rfdate) (Dryden)
* The Lincolnshire Poacher (traditional song)
(informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.
As adjectives the difference between glowy and shiny
is that glowy is glowing while shiny is reflecting light.As a noun shiny is
anything shiny; a trinket.glowy
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation
shiny
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass!
- Like distant thunder on a shiny day.
- When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire
Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years
Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear
Oh, 'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.