griefy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

grief +‎ -y

Adjective[edit]

griefy (comparative more griefy, superlative most griefy)

  1. Full of grief.
    • 1868, John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew, Poets' Corner: A Manual for Students in English Poetry, page 90:
      But, oh! the doleful sight that then we see: / We turnde our looke, and on the other side / A griefy shape of Famine mought we see, / With greedy lookes, and gaping mouth that cryed, […]
    • 2016, Jody Day, Living the Life Unexpected, page 128:
      It's hard and it's unfair, I know – and when we're still grieving or having a 'griefy' moment, it's even harder.
  2. (informal) Troublesome; liable to give someone grief.
    • 2013, Lisa Cutts, Never Forget:
      It always made the boss focus on you, and that usually meant that a griefy job was more likely to come your way.

References[edit]

  • (troublesome): Tony Thorne (2014) “griefy”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury
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