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Scaly vs Scary - What's the difference?

scaly | scary |

As adjectives the difference between scaly and scary

is that scaly is covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish while scary is causing or able to cause fright.

As nouns the difference between scaly and scary

is that scaly is the scaly yellowfish, species: Labeobarbus natalensis while scary is barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

scaly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.
  • Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
  • (dated, vulgar, or, South African) Mean; low.
    • a scaly fellow
  • Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia scaly) (Scaly Yellowfish) (Labeobarbus natalensis) (scalies)
  • (South Africa) The scaly yellowfish, .

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    scary

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Causing or able to cause fright
    • The tiger's jaws were scary.
    She was hiding behind her pillow during the scary parts of the film.
  • (US, colloquial, dated) Subject to sudden alarm; nervous, jumpy.
    • (Whittier)
  • * 1916 , Texas Department of Agriculture, Bulletin (issues 47-57), page 150:
    • And let us say to these interests that, until the Buy-It-Made-In-Texas movement co-operates with the farmers, we are going to be a little scary of the snare.
    Synonyms
    * (causing fright) frightening

    Etymology 2

    From dialectal English .

    Noun

  • Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

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