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Hawky vs Hacky - What's the difference?

hawky | hacky |

As adjectives the difference between hawky and hacky

is that hawky is resembling or characteristic of a hawk while hacky is like a hack; amateurish.

hawky

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of a hawk.
  • * 1953 , Mignon Good Eberhart, The unknown quantity
    • He was a tall man with very powerful-looking shoulders, but his flesh seemed to sag thinly over his big frame; his face was thin, too, over a hawky nose and receding chin and gray hair.
  • * 1963 , D'Arcy Niland, The shiralee
    • He had a hawky face with a high colour and eyes like slits of blue crystal, set in a web of fine lines. They were hard but not unkind.

    Synonyms

    * hawklike

    hacky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Like a hack; amateurish.
  • (Geordie) Filthy or totally dirty.
  • (computing, informal) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
  • (colloquial) Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacking.
    • A hacky''' cough. A '''hacky''' laugh. A '''hacky''' breath. A '''hacky howl.

    Derived terms

    * hackily

    Related terms

    * dirty (Standard English ) * dorty (Geordie) * hacky dorty (Geordie) * unclean (Standard English )

    References

    * * * * “ hacky” at Wordnik (Forwards to “hacking”, where “hacky” is listed.)