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Sully vs Solly - What's the difference?

sully | solly |

As a verb sully

is to soil or stain; to dirty.

As an adjective solly is

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sully

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

  • to soil or stain; to dirty
    • He did not wish to sully his hands with gardening.
  • * Roscommon
    • statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke
  • to damage or corrupt
    • He did not wish to sully his reputation with an ill-mannered comment.
  • * Atterbury
    • no spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity
  • To become soiled or tarnished.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding.

    solly

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Herbert Allen Giles, title=China and the Chinese, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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 ." }}

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