Solly vs Soily - What's the difference?
solly | soily |
* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Herbert Allen Giles, title=China and the Chinese, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Some years back, when I was leaving China for England with young children, their faithful Chinese nurse kept on repeating to the little ones the following remarkable sentence, "My too muchey solly' you go steamah; you no ' solly my." }}
* {{quote-book, year=1908, author=Ethel Turner, title=In the Mist of the Mountains, chapter=, edition=
, passage="I'm solly'," he said; then he seemed to realize more clearly that the lady's honour had to be vindicated before all these "girls," and he repeated more loudly and without being asked, "I'm velly ' solly ." }}
As adjectives the difference between solly and soily
is that solly is while soily is (obsolete) dirty; soiled.solly
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