Virginia vs Willy - What's the difference?
virginia | willy |
A state of the United States of America. Capital: Richmond. Largest city: Virginia Beach.
(astronomy) Short for , a main belt asteroid.
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* 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer),
* 1840 (Frederick Marryat), Poor Jack , Chapter III,
* 1854 , The Western Home, and Other Poems , Parry & McMillan, 1854, page 87 ,
* 1956 (Charlotte Armstrong), A Dram of Poison , Coward-McCann, pages 164-165:
Willing; favourable; ready; eagre.
Self-willed; willful.
A willow basket.
A fish basket.
(hypocoristic, slang, childish) the penis.
(UK) a person whom the speaker dislikes.
As proper nouns the difference between virginia and willy
is that virginia is a state of the United States of America. Capital: Richmond. Largest city: Virginia Beach while Willy is a male given name, diminutive of William.As an adjective willy is
willing; favourable; ready; eagre.As a noun willy is
alternative form of lang=en.virginia
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "Daughter," quoth he, "Virginia by thy name, / There be two wayes, either death or shame, / That thou must suffer, - alas that I was bore!
- Here, in due time, she was brought to bed of a daughter, whom she christened by the name of Virginia ; not so much out of respect to her last mistress, who bore that name, as because she considered it peculiarly ladylike and genteel.
- O sweet Virginia Dare! / Thou art the lily of our love, / The forest's sylph-like queen, / The first-born bud from Saxon stem / That this New World hath seen!
- She said her name was Virginia Severson. It suited her. She looked very virginal, and clean, calm, cool in a Scandinavian sort of way.