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Pily vs Oily - What's the difference?

pily | oily |

As adjectives the difference between pily and oily

is that pily is like pile or wool while oily is relating to oil.

As a noun oily is

a marble with an oily lustre.

pily

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Like pile or wool.
  • * 1903 , Charles Henry Lane, Rabbits, Cats and Cavies
    • the thick, fine, short undercoat, or pily fur
    (Webster 1913)

    oily

    English

    Alternative forms

    * oyly (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Relating to oil.
  • Smeared with or containing oil.
  • (figuratively) Excessively friendly or polite so as to sound insincere.

    • Derived terms

    * smell of an oily rag

    Noun

    (oilies)
  • A marble with an oily lustre.
  • * 1998 , Joanna Cole, Stephanie Calmenson, Michael Street, Marbles: 101 ways to play
    • Lustered (also called lusters, rainbows, oilies , and pearls)
  • * 2001 , Paul Webley, The economic psychology of everyday life (page 39)
    • But marbles are not only used to play games: they are also traded. In this market, the value of the different kinds of marbles (oilies , emperors, etc.) is determined by local supply and demand and not by the price of the marbles
  • oilskins (waterproof garment)