different between spotty vs blotched

English

Etymology

spot +? -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ti

Adjective

spotty (comparative spottier, superlative spottiest)

1. Having spots; spotted.
2. Of inconsistent quality

   Many of the buyers had a spotty credit history.

Translations

Noun

spotty (plural spotties)

1. A common New Zealand fish, Notolabrus celidotus

   I went fishing today and all I caught were spotties.

Translations

Derived terms

• spottiness

English

Etymology

From blotch +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bl?t?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bl?t?t/
• Rhymes: -?t?t

Adjective

blotched (comparative more blotched, superlative most blotched)

1. Covered in blotches (“uneven patches of colour or discolouration”).

   Synonyms: blotchy, spotted, spotty

   • 1743, Anonymous, A Description of Holland; or, the Present State of the United Provinces, London: J. & P. Knapton, p. 52,^[1]

     The Dutch think no People are so much troubled with the Scurvy as they: But they mistake. There are more blotched Faces in one Town in England, than in the whole Dutch Province [...]

   • 1845, Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the Second,^[2]

     The Blind Girl never knew that ceilings were discoloured, walls blotched and bare of plaster here and there, high crevices unstopped and widening every day, beams mouldering and tending downward.

Translations

Verb

blotched

1. simple past tense and past participle of blotch

Anagrams

• Bechtold