pumy

English

Etymology

Compare dialectal English pummer (“big, large”), and pomey (“pommel”).

Adjective

pumy (comparative more pumy, superlative most pumy)

1. (obsolete) large and rounded
   • (Can we date this quote by Edmund Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     A gentle stream, whose murmuring wave did play / Amongst the pumy stones

Noun

pumy (plural pumies)

1. (obsolete) pebble; stone

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pumy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• yump