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Primy vs Privy - What's the difference?

primy | privy |

As adjectives the difference between primy and privy

is that primy is (obsolete) in its prime while privy is private, exclusive; not public; one's own.

As a noun privy is

an outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house.

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.

    privy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
    • The king retreated to his privy chamber.
    the privy purse
  • Secret, hidden, concealed.
  • * 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 82:
    • Nonetheless, in the dark and privy stillness of our minds there are few of us who are not still haunted by worrisome doubts.
  • With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
    • He was privy to the discussions.

    Noun

    (privies)
  • An outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house.
  • (legal) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
    • (Burrill)
    (Wharton)