Pitchy vs Piceous - What's the difference?
pitchy | piceous |
Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
Very dark black; pitch-black.
*1843 , '', book 2, ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
(music) Off pitch; out of tune.
Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.
(Webster 1913)
As adjectives the difference between pitchy and piceous
is that pitchy is of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch while piceous is of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.pitchy
English
Adjective
(er)- 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!
