Puniest vs Punniest - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between puniest and punniest

is that puniest is superlative of puny while punniest is superlative of punny.

(head)

(puny)

(punies)

(obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.

(obsolete) A younger person.

*, II.12:

a law that the eldest or first borne child shall succeed and inherit all: where nothing at all is reserved for Punies , but obedience.

(obsolete) A beginner, a novice.

(Fuller)

(archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.

(er)

Of inferior size, strength or significance.

* Shakespeare

A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.

* Keble

Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.

* See also

(head)

(punny)

(er)

Involving the use of a pun.

(of a person) Who makes puns.