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Watchet vs Matchet - What's the difference?

watchet | matchet |

As nouns the difference between watchet and matchet

is that watchet is (obsolete) a light blue color while matchet is machete.

As an adjective watchet

is (obsolete) of the color watchet (as of eyes, clothes, etc).

watchet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A light blue color.
  • (obsolete) Cloth or clothes of this color.
  • * (c. 1343-1400):
    • Y-clad he was ful smal and proprely, al in a kirtel of a light wachet — ful faire and thikke been the poyntes set.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iv:
    • They him disarm'd, and spredding on the ground / Their watchet mantles frindgd with siluer round, / They softly wipt away the gelly blood [...].

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Of the color watchet (as of eyes, clothes, etc.).
  • * (1631-1700):
    • Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes?

    matchet

    English

    (wikipedia matchet)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • machete
    • ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (head)