Hooly vs Wooly - What's the difference?
hooly | wooly |
(archaic) Holy.
* 1380 , (translator), Matthew: I'', ''Bible'', 1810, ''The New Testament ,
* 14th c , '', 1987, ''The Riverside Chaucer ,
(archaic, or, Scotland) Wholly; all the way.
* Henry VII, The Will of King Henry VII'', 1775, ''The Will of King Henry VII ,
* 1834 , Noctes Ambrosionæ No. LXIX'', ''Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , Volume 36,
* 1840', , '''''Hooly and Fairly'', ''Fugitive Verses'', 1851, ''The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie , 2nd Edition,
(US)
(US)
As adjectives the difference between hooly and wooly
is that hooly is holy while wooly is alternative form of lang=en.As an adverb hooly
is wholly; all the way.As a noun wooly is
alternative form of lang=en.hooly
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl).Adjective
(hoolier)page 4,
- But while he thougte these thingis: Lo the aungel of the Lord apperid in slep to him and seide Joseph the sone of David nyle thou drede to take Marie thy wyf, for that thing that is born in hir is of the hooly Goost.
page 322,
- Ful ofte tyme I rede that no man truste in his owene perfeccioun, but he be stronger than Sampson, and hoolier than David, and wiser than Salomon.
Etymology 2
Adverb
(head)page 6,
- bee by our Executours hooly and perfitely fini?shed in every behalve, after the maner and fourme before rehersed, and futingly to that that is begoune and doon of theim.
page 832,
- This couldna hae lasted abune some ten minutes or less, when he began to wax weakish, and to stay rather langer at a time aneath than seemed consistent wi' prudence; sae I walked hooly doon to the bank, and cried on him to come oot, unless he was set on felo-de-se .
page 819,
- O, gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly!
See also
* hooley * hoolie ----wooly
English
Adjective
(er)- Put on a wooly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
- wooly hair
- That's the sort of wooly thinking that causes wars to start.
