different between pillowy vs pillory

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.

English

Etymology

From Old French pilori, pellori, which is either from Old Occitan espilori or Latin p?la (“pillar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?l??i/

Noun

pillory (plural pillories)

1. A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.

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Verb

pillory (third-person singular simple present pillories, present participle pillorying, simple past and past participle pilloried)

1. (transitive) To put in a pillory.
2. (transitive) To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
3. (transitive) To criticize harshly.

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