different between limey vs limy

English

lime +? -y. In the sense of "Englishman", from 18th- and 19th-century British sailors drinking lime juice to ward off scurvy.

limey (comparative limier, superlative limiest)

Resembling limes (the fruit); lime-like.
Of, or pertaining to, limes (the fruit).
This drink is full of limey goodness.

limey (plural limeys)

lime +? -y

limy (comparative limier, superlative limiest)

containing or resembling lime
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 6:
  Limy muds accumulated there as sediments, and entombed the remains of the animals living on the sea-floor.

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