What's the difference between thistly and whistly?

Thistly


Definition:

  • (a.) Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.
  • (a.) Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Olsen informed Thisted's family of the successful military operation and said "they were very happy and incredibly relieved that it is over".
  • (2) The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) confirmed the two aid workers, Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted, were "on their way to be reunited with their families".
  • (3) Following the kidnapping of Buchanan and Thisted in October in Galkayo town, Somalis held demonstrations demanding the pair's quick release.
  • (4) Thist study has shown that these parameters have a significant relation to the diagnosis of bladder outflow obstruction made after urodynamic studies.
  • (5) Buchanan, 32, and Thisted, 60, were working with a de-mining unit of the DRC when gunmen kidnapped them in October.

Whistly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a whist manner; silently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We may be sexting, Tindering and OK Cupid-ing until our iPhones burn our palms, but when it comes to physical consummation, for many of us, sex has gone the same way as whist drives and tea dances.
  • (2) I used to go on holiday with my friend Jessica and her family and, in among riotous games of whist and races on the beach, I remember her, after a tearful row over a packet of biscuits that had been unfairly distributed, slamming the bedroom door and hurling herself on to the bottom bunk.
  • (3) How to reproduce the bonding hilarity of a nightmare game of three-handed whist for two players without cards in the dark?

Words possibly related to "thistly"

Words possibly related to "whistly"