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Westy vs Resty - What's the difference?

westy | resty |

As adjectives the difference between westy and resty

is that westy is (obsolete) waste; desert or westy can be (dialectal) dizzy, giddy, confused while resty is .

westy

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) westi, . See (l).

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (obsolete) Waste; desert.

    • Etymology 2

    Origin obscure. Probably from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (dialectal) Dizzy, giddy, confused.
    • Whiles he lies wallowing, with a westy head — Joseph Hall.
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    resty

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.8:
  • *:In vaine the Pagan bannes, and sweares, and rayles, / And backe with both his hands unto him hayles / The resty raynes […].
    • (Shakespeare)
  • *, New York, 2001, p.218:
    • all [beef] is rejected and unfit for such as lead a resty life, anyways inclined to melancholy, or dry of complexion […].

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