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Wily vs Pily - What's the difference?

wily | pily |

As adjectives the difference between wily and pily

is that wily is sly, cunning, full of tricks while pily is like pile or wool.

wily

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • sly, cunning, full of tricks
    • Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    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)