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Roundy vs Woundy - What's the difference?

roundy | woundy |

As adjectives the difference between roundy and woundy

is that roundy is round while woundy is very great, extreme, excessive.

As an adverb woundy is

very, extremely, excessively.

roundy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) round
    • (Webster 1913)

    woundy

    English

    Etymology 1

    First attested ante 1639: wounds (interjection) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) (l), (l), (l)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) very (l), (l), (l)
  • * L'Estrange
    • Such a world of holidays, that 'tis a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labour.

    Etymology 2

    First attested in 1660: wound (noun) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare, figuratively) .