womby
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English womby, equivalent to womb + -y.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -uːmi
Adjective[edit]
womby (comparative more womby, superlative most womby)
- (obsolete) capacious
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
- Thus says my king; an if your father's highness
Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,
That caves and womby vaultages of France
Shall chide your trespass and return your mock
In second accent of his ordnance.