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Lunt vs Luny - What's the difference?

lunt | luny |

As a noun lunt

is a slow-burning match or torch.

As an adjective luny is

crazy; mentally unsound.

lunt

English

Noun

(lunts)
  • A slow-burning match or torch.
  • * 1969 , Robert Nye, Tales I Told My Mother ,
    • Bent down and saw I was right. A lunt' up the bugger’s nose. A ' lunt ? said Doctor Copper. Almost as long as your left forefinger, yes, said his visitor. Still burning.
  • Smoke with flames, especially from a pipe.
    • ----

    luny

    English

    Alternative forms

    * loony (now more common)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) crazy; mentally unsound
    • (Webster 1913)