frithy
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From frith (“forest, wood”) + -y.
Adjective[edit]
frithy (comparative more frithy, superlative most frithy)
- Woody; relating to brushwood, undergrowth, or a partial clearing in a forest
- 1523, John Skelton, A ryght delectable tratyse upon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 312, line 22:
- Thus stode I in the frytthy forest of Galtres, […]
- 1804, J Story, The Power of Solitude, a Poem, in Two Parts, page 92:
- Wild echoes scream, impetuous torrents roar, And mists and glooms obscure the frithy shore.
- 1807, “Omniana: The birth-day of the World”, in The Athenaeum, volume 2, page 589:
- to complete their ingratitude and injustice, they transported a cargo of notorious traitors to the Divine Majesty among you, impiously calling the frithy lumber, Ministers of God's Word.
- 1982, Farmers' Journal - Volume 2, page 52:
- In north India, small round, oblong or long, temperate varieties of radish may also be grown, but these should be harvested within 25-30 days, otherwise they become frithy very soon.
- 2017, Joshua K. Sapp, The Shaky Season:
- "Well," he met the Choco's glare, "we can't very well have him looking like some frithy trail wanderer out for a lowsun stroll, that looks bad on us.”
- 2021, Vikki Bengtsson, C. Philip Wheater, Helen Read & Reg Harris, “Responses of oak pollards to pruning”, in Arboricultural Journal, volume 43, number 3:
- The “frithy” or lush epicormic growth is very obvious in the left hand side of the crown in this photograph, as are the stubs with flat cuts that were left, in the right of the photograph.
Etymology 2[edit]
From frith (“peace, security”) + -y.
Adjective[edit]
frithy (comparative more frithy, superlative most frithy)
- (rare, nonstandard) Providing protection from ill effects.
- 2005, Galina Krasskova, Exploring the Northern Tradition, page 164:
- During blót/Symbel, a theodsman may never exchange a horn man to man—it must ALWAYS be grounded by a frithy presence (a female).
- 2017, P Wright, Willy Willy:
- The phone line is dreaming them into frithy silences.