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English
Etymology
dross + -y
Adjective
drossy (comparative drossier or more drossy, superlative drossiest or most drossy)
- worthless
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Thus has he, and many more of the same breed that I
know the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the
time and, out of an habit of encounter, a kind of
yeasty collection, which carries them through and
through the most profane and winnowed opinions
1685, Matthew Prior, “A Satyr on the modern Translators”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 23:They found the Mass, ’tis true, but in their Mould
They purg’d the drossy Oar to current Gold:
Mending their patttern, they escap’d the Curse,
Yet had they not writ better, they’d writ worse.