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grysie

grysie is the obsolete form of grisy.

Meaning of grisy

Adjective (1)

grisy (comparative more grisy, superlative most grisy)

  1. (obsolete) Grim, grisly.
    • And that fourth band, which cruell battry bent, / Against the fourth Bulwarke, that is the Tast, / Was as the rest, a grysie rablement […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Adjective (2)

grisy (comparative more grisy, superlative most grisy)

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

Questions about grysie

What is grysie the obsolete form of?
Grysie is the obsolete form of grisy.

Words near grysie in the dictionary

  1. Grypsera
  2. grypt
  3. grysappel
  4. grysbok
  5. grysboks
  6. grysie
  7. Grytviken
  8. gryvna
  9. gryvnas
  10. Grzelak
  11. Grzelaks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grysie (page history and authors); grisy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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