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Pily vs Pilm - What's the difference?

pily | pilm |

As an adjective pily

is like pile or wool.

As a noun pilm is

dust.

As a verb pilm is

(meaning uncertain) To have dust blow about.

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)

    pilm

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (dialect) dust
  • * {{quote-journal
  • , year=1876 , author=Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art , journal=Report and transactions , volume=8 , page=722 , passage=What is the derivation of pilm''''' = dust, so frequently heard in Devon, and its derivatives ''pilmy'', dusty : it ''pilmeth''. [...] ''Pillom'' is the full word, of which '''''pilm'' is a contraction. It appears to have been derived from the British word ''pylor, dust.}}
  • * {{quote-journal
  • , year=1885 , author=Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art , journal=Report and transactions , volume=17 , page=55 , passage=I may quote the famous definition once given in court to enlighten the Bench and the Bar as to the nature of pilm''''' : " Mucks a-drowed and zo vleeth," that is, " mud dried, and so ''it'' flies about "—not a bad definition of '''''pilm , which everybody here knows means dust.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dialect, impersonal) (meaning uncertain) To have dust blow about
  • Derived terms

    * pilmy

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