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Roy vs Roky - What's the difference?

roy | roky |

As adjectives the difference between roy and roky

is that roy is royal while roky is misty; foggy; cloudy.

As a proper noun Roy

is a given name derived from Scottish Gaelic.

As a noun roy

is a king.

roy

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
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  • * 2003 Minette Walters: Disordered Minds . Macmillan. ISBN 1741142121 page 173:
    • - - - The real pity is that the only name William Burton remembers is Roy ...it was a popular name in the fifties and sixties so there were probably quite a few of them."
    "Not that popular," said George. "Surely it's Roy Trent?"
    "Roy' Rogers...'''Roy''' Orbison... '''Roy''' of the Rovers...' Roy Castle..."
    "At least one of those was a comic-book character," said Andrew.
    "So? Bill Clinton and David Beckham named their children after places. All I'm saying is we can't assume Roy' Trent from ' Roy ."
  • A city in Utah.

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    roky

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (UK, dialect) misty; foggy; cloudy
  • * 1993 , Annie Proulx, The Shipping News , Scribner (1999), ISBN 068485791X, page 40:
    • They walked around in the roky damp, in silence.
    (Ray)
    (Webster 1913)