dewy
English
Etymology
From Middle English dewy, deuhy, from Old English dēawiġ, from Old English dēaw. Equivalent to dew + y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dewy (comparative dewier or more dewy, superlative dewiest or most dewy)
- Covered by dew.
- Synonym: rory
- The dewy grass was too slick for football.
- Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.
- In the dewy fog, it was cold and damp.
- 1831, Edgar Allan Poe, The Sleeper:
- At midnight, in the month of June, / I stand beneath the mystic moon. / An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, / Exhales from out her golden rim
- Fresh and innocent.
- 1814, 16 March, Percy Bysshe Shelley letter to Hogg, Thy Gentle Face
- Thy dewy looks sink in my breast
- Thy gentle words stir poison there;
- 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, →OCLC; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, →OCLC, page 13:
- It was unusually early for him; his whole person exhaled the charm of almost dewy freshness; [...]
- 2009, Bernfried Nugel, Jerome Meckier, Aldous Huxley Annual, →ISBN, page 23:
- Simplicity in life, simplicity in art, and a dewy freshness over all.
- 1814, 16 March, Percy Bysshe Shelley letter to Hogg, Thy Gentle Face
Derived terms
Translations
covered by dew
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bearing droplets of water
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Anagrams
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English dēawiġ, from Old English dēaw. Equivalent to dew + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dewy
- Resembling dew; dewy
- Resembling water.
Descendants
- English: dewy
References
- “deuī (adj.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.
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