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Puny vs Puy - What's the difference?

puny | puy |

As nouns the difference between puny and puy

is that puny is (obsolete) a new pupil at a school etc; a junior student while puy is any of several cone-shaped hills in the auvergne, france that are the remains of extinct volcanos.

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 ----

    puy

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia puy) (en noun)
  • Any of several cone-shaped hills in the Auvergne, France that are the remains of extinct volcanos
  • (geology) Any similar conical structure of volcanic material

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