thawy

English

Etymology

From thaw +‎ -y.

Adjective

thawy (comparative more thawy, superlative most thawy)

1. Becoming liquid; thawing; inclined to or tending to thaw.
2. Conducive to thawing.
   • 1844, Robert Montgomery Martin, History, Statistics and Geography of Upper and Lower Canada‎^[1], page 201:

     The N.W., which is the most frequent in winter, is dry, cold, and elastic; the S.E. soft, thawy, and rainy: the wind seldom blows from west or south, more rarely still from the north.

   • 1845, Daniel Pierce Thompson, Locke Amsden, Or, The Schoolmaster: a Tale, published 1855, page 96:

     A warm and broken December had been succeeded by a still warmer and more thawy January.

   • c. 1847, Elkanah Walker, edited by Clifford Merrill Drury, Nine Years with the Spokane Indians: The Diary, 1838-1848, of Elkanah Walker, published 1976, page 392:

     It has been more thawy to day but there was not much prospect that the weather will be favorable right away.