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Patchy vs Pitchy - What's the difference?

patchy | pitchy |

As adjectives the difference between patchy and pitchy

is that patchy is full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches while pitchy is of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.

patchy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
  • Not constant or continuous; intermittent or uneven .
    • patchy clouds

    pitchy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
  • Very dark black; pitch-black.
  • *1843 , '', book 2, ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
    • gurgles, twice in the four-and-twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a ''Lither''-Pool, a ''lazy or sullen Pool, no monstrous pitchy City, and Seahaven of the world!
  • (music) Off pitch; out of tune.