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Puny vs Puoy - What's the difference?

puny | puoy |

As nouns the difference between puny and puoy

is that puny is (obsolete) a new pupil at a school etc; a junior student while puoy is (pole for barges).

As an adjective puny

is of inferior size, strength or significance.

puny

English

Noun

(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.
  • Adjective

    (er)
  • Of inferior size, strength or significance.
  • * Shakespeare
  • A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.
  • * Keble
  • Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * punny – relating to a pun ----

    puoy

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pole for barges)