grisy

English

Etymology 1

From grise +‎ -y.

Adjective

grisy (comparative more grisy, superlative most grisy)

1. (obsolete) Grim, grisly.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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 gris +‎ -y.

Adjective

grisy (comparative more grisy, superlative most grisy)

1. (obsolete) Grey; grizzled.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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.