User:SnowyCinema/promisey

English

Etymology

promise +‎ -y

Adjective

promisey (comparative more promisey, superlative most promisey)

1. (rare, slang) Promising.
   • year unknown, HawaH, The Poetry Of Yoga (Vol. 1), Lulu.com (→ISBN), page 91:

     I take you in as new and shiny and promisey, And full of hope, and I let you go and ease Out of all the old and ancient and dusty: Long kept rooms full of fears and relatives I do not know any more, the mustiness of old Dreams lost ...

   • 2013, Jim O'Neal, Amy van Singel, The Voice of the Blues: Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine, Routledge (→ISBN), page 19:

     ... that played the big circuits, like Bojangles Robinson and all those, was big-timers like that, and if that wasn't promisey, they'd have to go the smaller places, in times when business was dull. Sara was kinda up in age.

2. (rare, slang) Characteristic of or including promises.
   • 2019, Brett Paesel, Everything Is Just Fine, Grand Central Publishing (→ISBN)

     He had said forever. Lots of times. “You said...” Missy snarls. She can't remember exactly what he said. But it was a lot of promisey stuff. Alejandro lifts his head and looks at her and she feels like her legs are going to give out.

Verb

promisey (third-person singular simple present promiseys, present participle promiseying, simple past and past participle promiseyed)

1. (rare, slang) To promise.
   • 2019, M. H. Boroson, The Girl with No Face: The Daoshi Chronicles, Book Two, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN)

     "Kill rat?" he said. "Promisey?"