Shiply vs Shitly - What's the difference?
shiply | shitly |
Of, resembling, or relating to a ship or ships; naval.
*1942 , Harold S. Ingham, Fire and water :
*1953 , William Sansom, Pleasures strange and simple :
*2012 , Stuart Wilson, Ice Haven :
As an adjective shiply
is of, resembling, or relating to a ship or ships; naval.As an adverb shitly is
(vulgar|extremely|rare|chiefly|uk) terribly; extremely poorly.shiply
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- But through its tiled passages there sails a shiply cleanliness. Everything is washed down with hosewater, swabbed down with swabs.
- There is nothing materially similar to a ship in the construction of a Fire Station, but through its tiled passages a shiply cleanliness pervades.
- They anchored at the island, which they had named Bear Island, for several days while they worked on their ship; repairing sails and doing shiply things of which Jacob still had little inkling.
