different between clayey vs clayed

English

Etymology

From Middle English cleyye; equivalent to clay +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kle?(j)i/
• Rhymes: -e?i

Adjective

clayey (comparative clayier, superlative clayiest)

1. Resembling or containing clay.
   • 1812, Antonio de Alcedo and George Alexander Thompson (translator), The geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies, vol. 2, page 13, “Demerara” (J. Carpenter):

     The shores of the rivers and creeks are chiefly planted with coffee, to the distance of about 30 miles from the sea : thence 30 miles farther up, the soil becomes clayey and more fit for sugar-canes.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 11

     Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if, darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 85:

     Limestone, of course, is calcium carbonate, and thus chemically utterly different in composition from the clayey rocks below and the hard, pebbly ones above.

Synonyms

• clayish
• argillaceous

Anagrams

• Cayley

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kle?d/

Adjective

clayed (comparative more clayed, superlative most clayed)

1. Containing clay.
   • 1896, O. E. Meinzer, R. F, Hare, Geological Survey (U.S.), Water-Supply Paper 343: Geology and Water Resources of Tularosa Basin, New Mexico, page 201,

     The soil of this belt is somewhat gravelly in the northeastern corner of the township and becomes more clayed toward the southwest.

   • 1981, Botanical Society of South Africa, Veld & Flora, Volumes 70-72, page 52,

     The resultant soils are generally wetter, more clayed and compacted.

   • 1997, Geodinamica Acta, Volumes 10-11, page 184,

     […] the matrix is yellow, more clayed but contains carbonate.

Verb

clayed

1. simple past tense and past participle of clay

Anagrams

• deacyl, lac dye