Kelly vs Helly - What's the difference?
kelly | helly |
Hellish, infernal.
* 1603', Samuel Harsnet, ''A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures'', quoted in '''2013 in ''Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Times (ISBN 0750952822):
* 1892 , Theodore Sydney Vaughn, Satan in Arms Against Columbus , page 138:
As a noun kelly
is a square or hexagonal pipe that is turned in order to rotate the rotary table of a drilling rig.As an adjective helly is
hellish, infernal.kelly
English
Alternative forms
* Kelley * (female given name) Kelli, KellieQuotations
* 1867 Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, The Life of David Garrick , Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1899, page 319 *: A better and more straightforward appeal, though less cool, was made to him by Hugh Kelly', - - - The play was so successful, and and Garrick said so much of it that Lord Pembroke was eager to be back from Paris to see it, though he said, with true aristocratic pride, that he could expect very little from such a name as "' Kelly ", especially if there be an "O'" before it. * 1986 , Enchantment , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986, ISBN 0151287910, page 207 *: On the walls of the salon are blown-up photos of models with dazzling teeth and ingeniously tousled hair - women with names like Kelly and Dawn, who come from tiny towns in Texas and Washington, who are tall and thin, and who don't appear to be burdened by any pasts to speak of.helly
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Adjective
(en adjective)- These monster-swarms his Holiness and his helly crew have scraped and raked together out of old doting historiographers, wizardising augurs, imposturing soothsayers, dreaming poets, chimerical conceiters, and coiners of fables, .
- Then wavered all the rebel rings, And of a sudden, ere a single blow Was struck, precipitous they shrieking fled, And sought the portals of their Helly home.
