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?