different between finely vs toledo

English

Etymology

From Middle English finely, fynely, fynly, fineliche, finliche, fynliche, equivalent to fine +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?fa?nli/
• Homophone: finally (one pronunciation)

Adverb

finely (comparative finelier or more finely, superlative fineliest or most finely)

1. So as to produce a fine texture.

   Grind the meat finely.

2. In a fine, handsome or attractive way; very well.
   • 2018, William Gershom Collingwood, The Book of Coniston (page 8)

     Looking back, Yewdale Crag stands finely over the waterhead; Brantwood is opposite.

Derived terms

• overfinely

Translations

Anagrams

• Finley, lenify

English

Etymology

From Toledo.

Noun

toledo (plural toledos)

1. A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, a city famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol I, ch. 31:

     Peregrine's weapon entering a kind of net work in the shell of Godfrey's sword, the blade snapped in two, and left him at the mercy of the soldier, who, far from making an insolent use of the victory he had gained, put up his Toledo with great deliberation […] .

   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xv

     A long toledo, with a hilt of filigrained steel, length of the blade three feet nine inches, finely tapering to a point.

   • 1821, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 3:

     ‘Fair Neophyte, beautiful Christian,’ answered the stranger, with a diabolical sneer, ‘be it known to you that I regard bolts, and bars, and walls, as much as I did the breakers and rocks of your Indian isle—that I can go where, and retire when I please, without leave asked or taken of your brother’s mastiffs, or Toledos, or spring-guns, and in utter defiance of your mother’s advanced guard of duennas, armed in spectacles, and flanked with a double ammunition of rosaries, with beads as large as—’

Anagrams

• looted, tooled

Spanish

Noun

toledo m (plural toledos)

1. (slang) toilet