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Patchers vs Patchery - What's the difference?

patchers | patchery |

As nouns the difference between patchers and patchery

is that patchers is while patchery is hypocrisy; trickery.

patchers

English

Noun

(head)

    • patchery

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Hypocrisy; trickery.
  • * , ii 3
    • Thersites: Here is ?uch patchery , ?uch juggling and ?uch knavery!
  • * , v 1
    • Timon: I, and you heare him cogge, ?ee him di??emble / Know his gro??e patchery , loue him, feede him / Keepe in your bo?ome: yet ramain a??ur’d / That he’s a made-up villaine.
  • * 1820 July 20, Dorothy Woodsworth, Journal
    • at Aix-la-Chappelle there is always a mighty preponderance of poverty and dullness, except in a few of the shewiest of the streets, and even there, a flashy meanness, a slight patchery of things falling to pieces is everywhere visible.
  • * 1888 , Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll and James Moffatt (editors), “The Books of the Apocrypha”, The Expositor , Hodder and Stoughton, page 340
    • the learned Dr. Lightfoot... in a sermon preached in St. Margaret’s, Westminster, before the House of Commons in 1643, spoke of the “wretched Apocrypha” as “a patchery of human invention,” divorcing the end of the law from the beginning of the Gospel.
  • * 1978 , Derek Roper, Reviewing Before the ''Edinburgh'' 1788-1802 , University of Delaware Press, ISBN 0874131286, page 281
    • It sounds prettily; and is, in parts, very carefully and mystically wrapped up in the gaudy envelope of poetical patchery .
  • That which is thrown or sown together usually clumsily or with different color and textures, like patchwork.
  • * 1856 , Henry Mason Baum, “The Ministry a Pleasant Work”, The Church Review. , page 532
    • [The Clergy] find all that is absolutely requisite, provided in some way or other; they succeed in feeding, clothing, and educating their children, and live in sufficient comfort not to feel the ridicule which belong to dilapidation and patchery .
  • * 1863 , “Naples and Lake Avernus”, The Eagle. , volume 3, W. Metcalfe (Cambridge), page 285
    • The Chinese mourn in white, and some of us in Harlequin-like patchery , as though believing motley to be the only wear.
  • * 1998 , Gioia Timpanelli, “Rusina, Not Quite in Love”, Sometimes the Soul'', ''Two Novellas of Sicily , W. W. Norton & Company (Sicily), ISBN 0393027449, page 131
    • In the corner next to the oven was a huge heap of black rags covering the couch. Among the patchery was a large piece of tapestry