Covered with or resembling grass; having the characteristics or appearance of grass.
From Middle English grasy, from Old English græsig, derived from græs meaning 'grass' plus the suffix -y. The word has maintained its basic meaning since Old English times, simply describing something that has the nature or appearance of grass.
The word 'grassy' contains one of the most fascinating sound changes in English history - the 'a' vowel shifted from a long 'ah' sound in Old English to the modern short 'a' we hear today. Interestingly, grass was so fundamental to Anglo-Saxon life that they had multiple words for different types of grassland, showing how central this simple plant was to their agricultural society.
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