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Shady vs Bowery - What's the difference?

shady | bowery |

As adjectives the difference between shady and bowery

is that shady is abounding in shades while bowery is sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.

As a noun bowery is

in the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.

As a proper noun Bowery is

a street and a district of New York City, whose residents were traditionally of a low social and economic class. (usually the Bowery..

shady

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Abounding in shades.
  • Causing shade.
  • * Bible, Job xl. 22
    • The shady trees cover him with their shadow.
  • Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter.
  • (informal) Not trustworthy; disreputable.
    • He is a shady character.
  • * 2009 : Stuart Heritage], [http://www.hecklerspray.com/ Hecklerspray] , Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “[http://www.hecklerspray.com/jon-kate-latest-people-you-dont-know-do-crap-you-dont-care-about/200934378.php Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
    • Jon & Kate Plus 8'' is a show based on two facts: 1)''' Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and '''2)''' the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a ' shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.
  • (UK, slang) Mean, cruel.
    • ''Don't be shady , give us a go.
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    • Synonyms

    * (not trustworthy) corrupt, dodgy, dubious, equivocal, seedy, sketchy, suspicious

    bowery

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.
  • * 1906 , , "Fate and the Apothecary," in The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories ,
    • Such a man had no chance whatever in this flowery and bowery little suburb.

    Related terms

    * bower

    Noun

    (boweries)
  • (archaic) In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
  • * 1809 , , Knickerbocker's History of New York , ch. 65,
    • His estate, or bowery , as it was called, has ever continued in the possession of his descendants.
  • * Bancroft
    • The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations

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