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Shelly vs Helly - What's the difference?

shelly | helly |

As adjectives the difference between shelly and helly

is that shelly is composed of the shells of dead marine creatures while helly is hellish, infernal.

shelly

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , variant of Shelley.
  • transferred from the surname, mostly of persons born before 1930.
  • used since 1930s, variant of Shelley.

    • helly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Hellish, infernal.
  • * 1603', Samuel Harsnet, ''A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures'', quoted in '''2013 in ''Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Times (ISBN 0750952822):
    • These monster-swarms his Holiness and his helly crew have scraped and raked together out of old doting historiographers, wizardising augurs, imposturing soothsayers, dreaming poets, chimerical conceiters, and coiners of fables, .
  • * 1892 , Theodore Sydney Vaughn, Satan in Arms Against Columbus , page 138:
    • Then wavered all the rebel rings, And of a sudden, ere a single blow Was struck, precipitous they shrieking fled, And sought the portals of their Helly home.

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