palmy

English

Etymology

From palm +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːmi/

Adjective

palmy (comparative palmier, superlative palmiest)

1. (obsolete) Made out of palm leaves or palm sap. [15th-19th c.]
2. Of, related to, or abounding in palm trees. [from 16th c.]
   • 1819, Reginald Heber, The Missionary Hymn:

     From Greenland’s icy mountains,

     From India’s coral strand,

     Where Afric’s sunny fountains

     Roll down their golden sand;

     From many an ancient river,

     From many a palmy plain,

     They call us to deliver

     Their land from error’s chain.

3. Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving. [from 17th c.]
   • 1832, The London Spy (volume 2, page 292):

     Elliston was, in his day, the Napoleon of Drury Lane; but, like the conqueror at Austerlitz, he suffered his declensions, and the Surrey became to him a Saint Helena. However, once an eagle always an eagle; and Robert William was no less aquiline in the day of adversity than in his palmy time of patent prosperity.

   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 46:

     ‘It must have been just like the palmy days of the British Drama.’

   • 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 48:

     So, all things being equal, from the beginning of my stay with Travis, I was in as palmy and benign a state as I could remember in many years.

Anagrams

• amply, maply

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Czech

Noun

1. genitive singular of palma
2. nominative plural of palma
3. accusative plural of palma
4. vocative plural of palma

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpal.mɨ/

Noun

palmy

1. inflection of palma:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

palmy

1. first-person plural imperative of palić

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