griefy

English

From grief +‎ -y.

griefy (comparative more griefy, superlative most griefy)

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.
(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.

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