sunshiny

English

Etymology

From sunshine +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪni

Adjective

sunshiny (comparative more sunshiny, superlative most sunshiny)

1. Sunny, full of sunshine.
   • (Can we date this quote by Charles Reade and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     There are men that roll through life like a fire-new red ball going across Mr. Lord's cricket ground on a sunshiny day […]

2. Bright, as though with sunshine; shining.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.12:

     The blazing brightnesse of her beauties beame, / And glorious light of her sunshyny face / To tell, were as to striue against the streame.

3. Cheerful, happy.

   Flowers can make any room sunshiny.

   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

     He had always been a sunshiny sort of boy, but that sun was gone now, buried behind heavy banks of cloud which were still building.