Puny vs Piny - What's the difference?
puny | piny |
(obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
(obsolete) A younger person.
*, II.12:
(obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
(archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.
Of inferior size, strength or significance.
* Shakespeare
* Keble
As adjectives the difference between puny and piny
is that puny is of inferior size, strength or significance while piny is of, pertaining to, or having many pines.As a noun puny
is (obsolete) a new pupil at a school etc; a junior student.puny
English
Noun
(punies)- a law that the eldest or first borne child shall succeed and inherit all: where nothing at all is reserved for Punies , but obedience.
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Adjective
(er)- A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.
- Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.