English edit

Etymology edit

coach +‎ -y

Adjective edit

coachy (comparative coachier, superlative coachiest)

  1. (dated) Of a horse: more suited to drawing a coach than to racing.
    • 1868, The New Sporting Magazine, volume 56, page 236:
      As a yearling, when Mr. Rowlands bid 900 guineas for Viscount, we thought him rather coachy; but he has framed with age into a nice, useful colt, and looks stones lighter than he did at the Derby.
  2. (informal) Of or related to coaches (trainers or instructors).
    • 2009, Jody Elizabeth Gehrman, Triple Shot Bettys in Love, Penguin, →ISBN, page 133:
      He looked all soccer coachy in a bright yellow Windbreaker and blue baseball cap.  []
    • 2015 May 25, Deborah Hagen, Only In Debbie's World, Lulu.com, →ISBN:
      (Not real coachy stuff to yell), but all I knew to yell. All of a sudden the other team got the puck away from my players and my friend's son, who was on his team, hit the puck with all his might Only In Debbie's World.

Noun edit

coachy (plural coachies)

  1. (slang, dated) Alternative form of coachee (a coachman)
    Tip the coachy a crown.
  2. (informal, diminutive) A coach (trainer or instructor).