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Lacey vs Laced - What's the difference?

lacey | laced |

As adjectives the difference between lacey and laced

is that lacey is while laced is tainted with something, especially a drug.

As a verb laced is

(lace).

lacey

English

Alternative forms

*Lacy

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • from a place Lassy in Calvados.
  • , transferred from the surname, mostly in the nineteenth century.
  • of modern usage.

    • Quotations

    * 1993 , Pigs in Heaven , ISBN 0060922532, page 322 *: "Where'd you get a prissy name like Lacey from, anyway?" *: "I don't know," Cash tells Alice, keeping his hands on the wheel and his eye trained ahead. "It was Alma thought of it. I think she liked the TV show with the lady cops. Lacey and somebody."

    laced

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tainted with something, especially a drug.
    • I don't know what it was laced with, but he passed out a minute after drinking that first beer.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lace)
  • Especially of shoelaces, intertwined and neatly knotted.
    • Are your shoes laced up yet?
    The handkercheif was laced up into a neat little pillow.

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