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Roopy vs Roomy - What's the difference?

roopy | roomy |

As adjectives the difference between roopy and roomy

is that roopy is hoarse while roomy is spacious, expansive, comfortable.

roopy

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (Scotland)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Hoarse.
  • *1863 , Charles Dickens, David Copperfield :
    • But he said he had observed I was sometimes hoarse — a little roopy was his exact expression — and it should be, every drop, devoted to the purpose he had mentioned.
  • *1934 , P G Wodehouse, Thank You, Jeeves :
    • It wasn't in its essentials a musical voice, being on the thick side and a shade roopy . If I'd been its owner, I'd have given more than a little thought to the subject of tonsils.

    Related terms

    * (l)

    roomy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Spacious, expansive, comfortable.
    • Our new apartment is roomy enough to accommodate all our furniture.
  • * 2013 Dec. 22, Jad Mouawad and Martha C. White, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/business/on-jammed-jets-sardines-turn-on-one-another.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 23 December 2013):
  • *:Over the last two decades, the space between seats — hardly roomy before — has fallen about 10 percent, from 34 inches to somewhere between 30 and 32 inches. Today, some airlines are pushing it even further, leaving only a knee-crunching 28 inches.