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Welly vs Helly - What's the difference?

welly | helly |

As a noun welly

is wellington boot.

As an adjective helly is

{{tcx|obsolete|lang=en}} Hellish, infernal.

welly

English

Noun

  • (countable) Wellington boot.
  • (uncountable) Force on a pedal or increase to any fuel or power for an engine or motor.
  • (uncountable) Force or effort.

    • Alternative forms

    * wellie

    Derived terms

    * welly whanging * give it some welly * welly it

    helly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Hellish, infernal.
  • * 1603', Samuel Harsnet, ''A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures'', quoted in '''2013 in ''Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Times (ISBN 0750952822):
    • These monster-swarms his Holiness and his helly crew have scraped and raked together out of old doting historiographers, wizardising augurs, imposturing soothsayers, dreaming poets, chimerical conceiters, and coiners of fables, .
  • * 1892 , Theodore Sydney Vaughn, Satan in Arms Against Columbus , page 138:
    • Then wavered all the rebel rings, And of a sudden, ere a single blow Was struck, precipitous they shrieking fled, And sought the portals of their Helly home.

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