different between billowy vs pillowy

English

Etymology

billow +? -y

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?.l??.(w)i/
• Rhymes: -?l??(w)i

Adjective

billowy (comparative billowier, superlative billowiest)

1. swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 58

     [...] Tiare clasped me to her vast bosom, so that I seemed to sink into a billowy sea, and pressed her red lips to mine.

Translations

References

• billowy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From pillow +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?.l??.(w)i/
• Rhymes: -?l??(w)i

Adjective

pillowy (comparative more pillowy, superlative most pillowy)

1. Resembling a pillow: soft and fluffy
   • 2012, Si King, Dave Myers, The Hairy Bikers' Big Book of Baking

     Delectable soft, pillowy rolls, filled with a sweet nutty mixture or fruit, these are like tea cakes and are great for breakfast or tea.

   • 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:

     Anna Nicole Smith, the pillowy Playboy and Guess jeans model, marries eighty-nine-year-old J. Howard Marshall II, an oil baron six decades her senior, who is worth half a billion dollars.