different between yellowly vs yellowy

English

Etymology

yellow +? -ly

Adverb

yellowly (comparative more yellowly, superlative most yellowly)

1. In a yellow manner; with yellow colour.
   • 1864, Henry T. Spicer, “Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy: Another Past Lodger Relates What Lot He Drew at Glumper House”, in All the Year Round, Extra Christmas Number, 1 December, 1864, Part 4, p. 28,^[1]

     After rice appeared the much-dreaded pie, glaring yellowly, with its coarse pretentious outside—prototype of many a living humbug—veiling one knows not what of false and vile.

   • 1930, D. H. Lawrence, “Love Among the Haystacks” in Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories, Part 4, p. 31,^[2]

     The light of the bicycle lamp sheered yellowly across the dark, catching a glint of raindrops, a mist of darkness, shadow of leaves and strokes of long grass.

   • 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, London: Vintage, 2002, Chapter 1,

     He showed his tartar-coated teeth in a fatherly smile. […] when he crossed the room, yellowly smiling, he might have been about to kiss the bride.

   • 1958, Alfred Hayes, My Face for the World to See, New York Review of Books, 2013, Chapter 6, p. 19,^[3]

     She had a black cat. It regarded me yellowly through the window screen when I rang her doorbell.

English

Etymology

yellow +? -y

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?j?lo?.i/

Adjective

yellowy (comparative yellowier, superlative yellowiest)

1. Somewhat yellow; yellowish.
   • 1816, John Hamilton Reynolds, “The Fairies” in The Naiad: a Tale, with Other Poems, London: Taylor & Hessey, p. 62,^[1]

     Let the daisy, yellow-hearted,

     With its white leaves starry-parted,

     And the cowslips, yellowy pale,

     Serve her as a flowery veil—

   • 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part 1, Chapter Eight,^[2]

     […] the worn-out antiquity of Sulaco, so characteristic with its stuccoed houses and barred windows, with the great yellowy-white walls of abandoned convents behind the rows of sombre green cypresses […]

   • 1977, Breece D’J Pancake, “Trilobites” in The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, p. 24,^[3]

     I start the truck, drive west along the highway built on the dry bed of the Teays. There’s wide bottoms, and the hills on either side have yellowy billows the sun can’t burn off.