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Polly vs Holly - What's the difference?

polly | holly |

As proper nouns the difference between polly and holly

is that polly is a female given name, nickname for mary created by rhyming with molly while holly is .

polly

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A female given name, nickname for Mary created by rhyming with Molly.
  • * 1860 Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell, The Lighthouse , Saunders, Otley and co. 1860, page 161:
    • "Well, Johnny," she replied, rather hurt, "if you want to call me something else, you may do so; but I will not have any outlandish, ridiculous names. I don't like it much, but if you really wish it, you may call me Polly ."
    Polly , indeed! Mary was getting more and more prosaic.
  • A common name for a pet parrot.

    • See also

    * Pollyanna * poly- * English diminutives of female given names

    holly

    English

    Noun

    (hollies)
  • Any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex , either evergreen or deciduous, used as decoration especially at Christmas.
  • The wood from this tree.
  • (with a qualifier) Any of several unrelated plant species likened to Ilex because of their prickly, evergreen foliage and/or round, bright-red berries

    • Derived terms

    * false holly * * holly olive * holly osmanthus * * Hollywood * sea holly