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Lathy vs Pathy - What's the difference?

lathy | pathy |

As an adjective lathy

is (archaic) like a lath; long and slender.

As a noun pathy is

(informal) a therapy.

lathy

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic) Like a lath; long and slender.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1854, author=William Harrison Ainsworth, title=The Lancashire Witches, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In this way he was dragged out; and as he crept up the bank, with the wet pouring from his apparel, which now clung tightly to his lathy limbs, he was greeted by the jeers of Nicholas. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Hamilton Drummond, title=The Justice of the King, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And little lathy Charles with his long, narrow white face and obstinate chin, is no A B C of a boy. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1917, author=Rudyard Kipling, title=A Diversity of Creatures, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage='Twas just a bit o' lathy old plank which Jim had throwed acrost the brook for his own conveniences. }}

    pathy

    English

    Noun

    (pathies)
  • (informal) A therapy
  • *1849 Journal of Health
  • **So, no doubt, it may be applied to hydropathy, and to every other sort of pathy''', and the result will be that every sort of '''pathy cures not all persons, but many persons...