grisy

English

Etymology 1

From grise +‎ -y.

Adjective

grisy (comparative more grisy, superlative most grisy)

(obsolete) Grim, grisly.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto 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 gris +‎ -y.

Adjective

grisy (comparative more grisy, superlative most grisy)

(obsolete) Grey; grizzled.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto I:
  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.

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