different between festy vs resty
festy
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?sti
Etymology 1
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Adjective
festy (comparative more festy, superlative most festy)
- (Australia, slang) Disgusting.
- (Australia, slang) Very bad, dreadful.
Etymology 2
From festival +? -y (“diminutive suffix”)
Noun
festy (plural festies)
- (slang) A festival.
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resty
English
Etymology
Variant of restiff.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?sti
Adjective
resty (comparative more resty, superlative most resty)
- (now regional) Restive, resistant to control. [from 16th c.]
- 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 […]
- 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son and T. Cadell, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 6, p. 83,[1]
- I could not come a moment sooner; I hardly expected to get here at all, for my horse has been so confounded resty I could not tell how to get him along.
- 1910, Arthur Quiller-Couch (as “Q”), “The Copernican Convoy” in Corporal Sam and Other Stories, London: Smith, Elder, p. 57,[2]
- “Catch hold of the pack-beasts!” I shouted, as they shied back upon us, and two were caught and held fast—I know not by whom. The third, the resty one, springing backwards past me, almost on his haunches, jerked his halter wide of my clutch, and in a moment was galloping full flight down the slope.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:
- (now regional) Disposed to rest; inactive, lazy. [from 16th c.]
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, Scene 6,[3]
- […] Come; our stomachs
- Will make what’s homely savoury: weariness
- Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
- Finds the down pillow hard.
- , 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 […]
- 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes, London, Chapter 24, p. 182,[4]
- […] what are Chaplains? In State perhaps they may be listed among the upper Servingmen of som great houshold, and be admitted to som such place, as may stile them the Sewers, or the Yeomen-Ushers of Devotion, where the Maister is too restie, or too rich to say his own prayers, or to bless his own Table.
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, Scene 6,[3]
Anagrams
- Strey, Styer, Treys, Tyers, treys, tyers, tyres
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