dewy
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English dewy, deuhy, from Old English dēawiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwag, *dauwīg, equivalent to dew + -y.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
dewy (comparative dewier or more dewy, superlative dewiest or most dewy)
- Covered by dew.
- Synonyms: bedewed, rory; see also Thesaurus:bedewed
- The dewy grass was too slick for football.
- Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.
- In the dewy fog, it was cold and damp.
- 1831, Edgar Allan Poe, The Sleeper:
- At midnight, in the month of June, / I stand beneath the mystic moon. / An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, / Exhales from out her golden rim
- Fresh and innocent.
- 1814, 16 March, Percy Bysshe Shelley letter to Hogg, Thy Gentle Face
- Thy dewy looks sink in my breast
- Thy gentle words stir poison there;
- 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, →OCLC; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, →OCLC, page 13:
- It was unusually early for him; his whole person exhaled the charm of almost dewy freshness; [...]
- 2009, Bernfried Nugel, Jerome Meckier, Aldous Huxley Annual, →ISBN, page 23:
- Simplicity in life, simplicity in art, and a dewy freshness over all.
- 1814, 16 March, Percy Bysshe Shelley letter to Hogg, Thy Gentle Face
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
covered by dew
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old English dēawiġ, from Old English dēaw. Equivalent to dew + -y.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
dewy
- Resembling dew; dewy
- Resembling water.
Descendants edit
- English: dewy
References edit
- “deuī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.