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Drossy vs Dropsy - What's the difference?

drossy | dropsy |

As an adjective drossy

is worthless.

As a noun dropsy is

swelling, edema, often from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD.

drossy

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • worthless
  • * 1602 : , act V scene 2
    • Thus has he, and many more of the same breed that I
    know the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the
    time and, out of an habit of encounter, a kind of
    yeasty collection, which carries them through and
    through the most profane and winnowed opinions

    dropsy

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (pathology) Swelling, edema, often from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD.
    • 1911 , Joseph Addison , :
    The disease under which Addison laboured appears to have been asthma. It became more violent after his retirement from office, and was now accompanied by dropsy .

    Derived terms

    * dropsical * dropsically