Smithy vs Slithy - What's the difference?
smithy | slithy |
The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works, a forge.
(uncommon) to forge, especially by hand
* 1995 , John Francis Campbell, The Celtic Dragon Myth , page 59:
A nonce word in (Lewis Carroll)'s (Jabberwocky) combining the senses of "slimy" and "lithe".
As a proper noun smithy
is a nickname of the surname smith.As an adjective slithy is
a nonce word in (lewis carroll)'s (jabberwocky) combining the senses of "slimy" and "lithe".smithy
English
Noun
(smithies)- Traditionally a village smithy was a busy place because the smith's work was so necessary.
Verb
(en-verb)- So the old smith went out to his smithy and weighed out iron enough to make a stout staff a stone weight, and he smithied' it well while his son looked on. So they weighed six stone of iron and ' smithied a great bent club like a shinny, and when that was made and cooled the smith's son said, "that will do."
slithy
English
Adjective
- 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe'' — Lewis Carroll, ''Jabberwocky