Paly vs Waly - What's the difference?
paly | waly |
(heraldry) vertically striped
(obsolete) pale; lacking colour
* 1593 , , III. ii. 141:
(obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) An exclamation of grief.
(Webster 1913)
As an adjective paly
is vertically striped.As an interjection waly is
an exclamation of grief.paly
English
Etymology 1
Compare (etyl) . See (pale) a stake.Adjective
(-)Etymology 2
Adjective
(en adjective)- Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips / With twenty thousand kisses,
- (Whittier)