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Watry vs Wastry - What's the difference?

watry | wastry |

As an adjective watry

is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As a noun wastry is

extravagance, wastefulness.

watry

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • *{{quote-book
    • , author = , title = , year = 1734 , page = 34 , publisher = J. Roberts , passage = That leg was swell'd, inflam'd to a high degree, from knee to ancle, perfectly black in color, with watry blisters... }}

    wastry

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Scotland, northern England) Extravagance, wastefulness.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 136:
  • *:Syne Chae had the toddy made and he handed a glass to Ewan first, as was right with a man, and another to Chris, with three spoonfuls of sugar in it, Mistress Strachan might have had something to say about that if she'd seen such wastry .