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Stilly vs Stilty - What's the difference?

stilly | stilty |

As adjectives the difference between stilly and stilty

is that stilly is silent; calm while stilty is pompous.

As an adverb stilly

is while still and calm.

stilly

English

Adjective

(head)
  • silent; calm
  • * {{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The dead--in holy, stilly peace, the sacred dead repose, Afar from earth's turmoil and grief, and all of sick'ning woes; From racking pain, and withering pride, and avarice's care, Secure they rest in solitude, unaw'd by sin or snare. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1879, author=Anthony Trollope, title=Thackeray, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Long was the darkness, Lonely and stilly . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Jack London, title=A Daughter of the Snows, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Crickets sang of nights in the stilly cabins, and in the sunshine mosquitoes crept from out hollow logs
  • * {{quote-book, year=1996, author=Stephen King, title=The Green Mile, chapter=4, edition=Pocket Books, url=
    • , passage= . . . Marjorie used Central to call as many of her neighbors that were also on the exchange as she could, telling them of the disaster which had fallen like a lightning-stroke out of a clear sky, knowing that each call would produce overlapping ripples, like pebbles tossed rapidly into a stilly pond.}}

    Adverb

    (-)
  • While still and calm
  • * {{quote-book, year=1868, author=George A. Lawrence, title=Guy Livingstone;, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=She passed away very stilly and painlessly. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Mary Johnston, title=Audrey, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The river, too, was colored, and every tree was like a torch burning stilly in the quiet of the evening. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=S.R. Crockett, title=Bog-Myrtle and Peat, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=When she arrived at the white boat which floated so stilly on the morning glitter of the water, only just stirred by a breeze from the south, she stepped at once on board. }}

    stilty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) pompous
  • (of a gait) uneven, as if walking on stilts
  • *{{quote-book, year=1906, author=Harry Caulton Reeks, title=Diseases of the Horse's Foot, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He has the animal trotted, and may notice at this stage that there is an inclination to go on the toes, that the lame limb or limbs are not put forward freely, and that progression is stilty and uncertain; it is such, in fact, as to at once suggest the possibility of corns being present. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1916, author=United States Department of Agriculture, title=Special Report on Diseases of the Horse, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=If he is lame in both feet the gait is stilty , the shoulders seem stiff, and, if made to work, he sweats profusely from intense pain. }}
  • resembling stilts
  • * Feb 19, 2007 , - Floored by Nelly's vocal punch [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3663306/Floored-by-Nellys-vocal-punch.html]
  • *:Down there on the stage Furtado twizzled her shiny jet ringlets around her tiny digits and wobbled off stage in her stilty white stilettos.

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