different between quilly vs quilty

English

Etymology

From quill +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kw?li/
• Rhymes: -?li

Adjective

quilly (comparative more quilly, superlative most quilly)

1. Pertaining to or resembling a quill. [from 16th c.]
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXXVIII:

     The fabrick of the wing, as it appears through a moderately magnifying Microscope, seems to be a body consisting of two parts […]; the one is a quilly or finny substance, consisting of several long, slender and variously bended quills or wires, something resembling the veins of leaves […].

2. With quills; quilled. [from 18th c.]
   • 2005, Jean M. Thompson, Wild Kindred of Fur, Feather and Fin (page 79)

     […] sometimes you may even run across a quilly ball lying right on top of the ledge, or catch one of the numerous porcupine family picking its way leisurely among the rocks.

English

Etymology

quilt +? -y

Adjective

quilty (comparative more quilty, superlative most quilty)

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a quilt.
   • 2000, Jodie Davis, Hometown Quilts: Paper Piece a Village of Memories (page 122)

     You'll find some nice quilty gift-type items.

Anagrams

• quitly