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Grisly vs Grisy - What's the difference?

grisly | grisy |

As adjectives the difference between grisly and grisy

is that grisly is horrifyingly repellent; terrifying, gruesome while grisy is (obsolete) grim, grisly or grisy can be (obsolete) grey; grizzled.

grisly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • horrifyingly repellent; terrifying, gruesome
    • The photos of the killings depict a grisly scene.

    See also

    * gristly * grizzly

    grisy

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Grim, grisly.
  • * , II.xi:
    • And that fourth band, which cruell battry bent, / Against the fourth Bulwarke, that is the Tast , / Was as the rest, a grysie rablement [...].

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Grey; grizzled.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • *: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.