resty
English
Etymology
Variant of restiff.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛsti
Adjective
resty (comparative more resty, superlative most resty)
- (now regional) Restive, resistant to control. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- 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.
- (now regional) Disposed to rest; inactive, lazy. [from 16th c.]
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:
- […] Come; our stomachs
Will make what’s homely savoury: weariness
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, 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 […]
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