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Grisy vs Grimy - What's the difference?

grisy | grimy |

As adjectives the difference between grisy and grimy

is that grisy is (obsolete) grim, grisly or grisy can be (obsolete) grey; grizzled while grimy is stained, or covered with grime.

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.
  • grimy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Stained, or covered with grime.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,
  • (music) From the urban musical genre called grime.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=November 27, work=BBC
  • , title= Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff' , passage=Riffs from older songs seem to be more popular, as only two from the past decade made it into the top 20. They were Muse's Plug In Baby, at 11, and The White Stripes' grimy Seven Nation Army at 15. }}