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Paly vs Waly - What's the difference?

paly | waly |

As an adjective paly

is vertically striped.

As an interjection waly is

an exclamation of grief.

paly

English

Etymology 1

Compare (etyl) . See (pale) a stake.

Adjective

(-)
  • (heraldry) vertically striped

    • Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) pale; lacking colour
  • * 1593 , , III. ii. 141:
    • Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips / With twenty thousand kisses,
    (Whittier)

    waly

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) An exclamation of grief.
    • (Webster 1913)