different between soily vs sonly

English

Etymology

From soil +? -y.

Adjective

soily (comparative soilier, superlative soiliest)

1. Covered in soil; earthy.
   • 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 9:

     A woman with a well-to-do south voice told me to wash my soily hands before touching her messages.

2. Resembling or characteristic of soil.
3. Dirty; soiled.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 333:

     Methinks, miss, said Sally, you are a little soily, to what we have seen you.

4. (obsolete) Apt to stain.

English

Etymology

From son +? -ly. Compare Dutch zoonlijk, German söhnlich.

Adjective

sonly (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a son.
   • 2003, Calvin Miller, A Hunger for the Holy:

     There's something sonly in each human being; but how well he hides it, and how unskillful we are at finding it! This "something sonly" is the vacuum of our hearts — a yearning emptiness that strains to be filled with Christ.

   • 2008, Rik Van Nieuwenhove, Rob Faesen, H. Rolfson, Late Medieval Mysticism of the Low Countries:

     And also, if the Father were not the Father, then the Son would not have his sonly name.

Synonyms

• filial

Translations

Anagrams

• Lyons, lyons, nosyl, noyls, onlys, ynols