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Etymology

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From trough +‎ -y.

Adjective

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troughy (comparative more troughy, superlative most troughy)

  1. Having troughs (long narrow depressions between waves).
    • 1850, W. H. Sadler, Miscellaneous Poems, Historical and Descriptive, page 15:
      Wall'd around with driving foam, / Reels she in the troughy brine; []
    • 1862, William Martin, Peter Parley's Annual, page 141:
      [] they tumbled and rolled over them, much after the manner of two ships in a rough, bobbing, and troughy sea, till at last one came down sprawling with the other above him.