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Swarthy vs Swarth - What's the difference?

swarthy | swarth |

As adjectives the difference between swarthy and swarth

is that swarthy is tawny, dusky, dark while swarth is swarthy.

As a noun swarth is

alternative form of lang=en.

swarthy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • tawny, dusky, dark
  • dark-skinned
  • * Addison
    • Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains.
  • (nonstandard) evil, malicious
  • (nonstandard) weathered, rough

    • swarth

    English

    Noun

  • * Herman Melville
    • Last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swarths .
  • * Cowper
    • Grassy swarth , close cropped by nibbling sheep.
  • An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.
    • (Grose)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) swarthy
  • * Chapman
    • A swarth complexion.

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