Resty
Origin
Variant of restiff.
Full definition of resty
Adjective
resty
- (now regional) Restive. from 16th c.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:In vaine the Pagan bannes, and sweares, and rayles,
And backe with both his hands unto him hayles
The resty raynes …. - (now regional) Disposed to rest; inactive, lazy. from 16th c.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 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 ....