beachy

See also: Beachy

English

Etymology

beach +‎ -y

Adjective

beachy (comparative beachier, superlative beachiest)

1. Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     O God that one might reade the booke of fate, / And ſee the reuolution of the times, / Make mountaines leuell, and the continent / Weary of ſolide firmeneſſe melt it ſelfe / Into the ſea, and other times to ſee, / The beachie girdle of the ocean, / Too wide for Neptunes hips, how chances mockes, / And changes fill the cup of alteration, / With diuers liquors!

2. Pertaining to a beach or something beach-like.
   • 2004 Exporters, here's a "beachy" place to get your feet wet. It's close by, and one of the main tourist destinations in the Caribbean. — USDA site

Derived terms

• beachiness
• Beachy Head
• unbeachy