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Townly vs Towny - What's the difference?

townly | towny |

As adjectives the difference between townly and towny

is that townly is characteristic of a town or its inhabitants while towny is characteristic of a town.

As a noun towny is

an alternative spelling of lang=en.

townly

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (rare) Characteristic of a town or its inhabitants.
  • * 1838 , Public Library of South Australia, South Australian facsimile editions (issue 34, page 13)
    • The city, although it has been so called certainly by anticipation, already begins to wear a townly aspect, and to exhibit the symptoms of a thriving community.

    towny

    English

    Noun

    (townies)

    • Adjective

    (townier)
  • Characteristic of a town.
  • * 1947 , Lynn Doyle, Green oranges (page 87)
    • The cousin might get the farm at Elias's death; but there was no telling. Elias didn't like him. He and his family were too towny for Elias. There was a danger that Elias might put the farm up for public auction, and live his latter days on the price.