grisy
English
Etymology 1
From grise + -y.
Adjective
grisy (comparative more grisy, superlative most grisy)
- (obsolete) Grim, grisly.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XI:
- And that fourth band, which cruell battry bent, / Against the fourth Bulwarke, that is the Tast, / Was as the rest, a grysie rablement […]
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Etymology 2
From gris + -y.
Adjective
grisy (comparative more grisy, superlative most grisy)
- (obsolete) Grey; grizzled.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto I:
- So earely, ere the grosse Earthes gryesy shade / Was all disperst out of the firmament, / They tooke their steeds, and forth upon their journey went.
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