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Primly vs Primy - What's the difference?

primly | primy |

As an adverb primly

is in a prim manner.

As an adjective primy is

(obsolete) in its prime.

primly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a prim manner.
  • * 1949 , Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
    • She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses

    Synonyms

    * (in a prim manner): precisely, properly

    primy

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (obsolete) in its prime
  • *, Act I, Scene 3, lines 5-10
    • For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor, / Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, / A violet in the youth of primy nature, / Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, / The perfume and suppliance of a minute. / No more.