different between wintery vs wintry

English

wintery (comparative winterier, superlative winteriest)

From Old English wintrig. Also constructed from winter +? -y.

wintry (comparative wintrier, superlative wintriest)

Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
wintry weather
Of precipitation, containing sleet or snow.
It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.
Aged, white-haired.
Chilling, cheerless.
- 1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet, The Bounder's Folly
  He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight.
a wintry remark

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Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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