sweepy
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sweepy (comparative more sweepy, superlative most sweepy)
- Moving with a sweeping motion, or having a curving shape that suggests it.
- a sweepy log
- 1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- The branches bend before their sweepy sway.
- 2018, Heleen Kist, In Servitude:
- I cleaned their table, each wipe sweepier than the last, reflecting the gradual unburdening of my daily routine.
References[edit]
- “sweepy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.