billowy

English

Etymology

billow +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈbɪ.ləʊ.(w)i/
• Rhymes: -ɪləʊ(w)i

Adjective

billowy (comparative billowier, superlative billowiest)

1. Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 58

     [...] Tiare clasped me to her vast bosom, so that I seemed to sink into a billowy sea, and pressed her red lips to mine.

Trivia

Excluding the grass genus Aegilops, this is the longest English word with all of its letters in alphabetical order (tied with beefily).

References

• billowy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913