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Festival vs Festy - What's the difference?

festival | festy |

As adjectives the difference between festival and festy

is that festival is pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively. while festy is disgusting.

As nouns the difference between festival and festy

is that festival is an event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community while festy is a festival.

festival

English

(wikipedia festival)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
    • the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
  • In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

    • Related terms

    * festive * festivities

    festy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Australia, slang) Disgusting.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=I'm able to admit it when I fuck up , group=aus.politics , author=Brian S , date=September 10 , year=1997 , passage=God knows I've had my fair share of festy flatmates who started out all sweetness and light... :) citation
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=Wheres My Bangles Track!!!? , group=aus.culture.gothic , author=Hobbes , date=June 14 , year=2000 , passage=I wish I went to Blue Monday, I wanna go back to Wall St, I miss Wall St damnit.  The sucken dancefloor, the space under the pin ball machine, the festy toilets, the railings, the venue. citation
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=[MELB] Come live with me... , group=aus.culture.gothic , author=solitaire , date=August 28 , year=2000 , passage=So, the festy scrag is packing up and pissing off... citation
  • Very bad, dreadful.

    • Etymology 2

    From

    Noun

    (festies)
  • A festival.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=CHAOS ENGINE SPAMBLAST, 26/07/02 , group=alt.gothic.music , author=Lee H , date=July 26 , year=2002 , passage=Keeping that festy vibe going, we've just been promoted to headline act for the REBIRTH festival this weekend in Cardiff! citation