grayey

English

Alternative forms

• greyey

Etymology

gray +‎ -ey

Adjective

grayey (comparative more grayey, superlative most grayey)

1. Somewhat gray.

   Synonym: grayish

   • 1852, Henry David Thoreau, journal entry dated 16 November, 1852, in Patrick F. O’Connell (ed.), Journal, Vol. 5, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997, p. 395,^[1]

     We sailed up Well Meadow Brook. The water is singularly grayey clear & cold.

   • 1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 7, in Anne of the Island‎^[2], New York: A. L. Burt, page 74:

     It’s snowing to-day, and I’m rapturous. I was so afraid we'd have a green Christmas and I loathe them. You know, when Christmas is a dirty grayey-browney affair, looking as if it had been left over a hundred years ago and had been in soak ever since, it is called a green Christmas! Don’t ask me why.

   • 1953, Edward Sheehy, “The Black Mare” in Devin A. Garrity (ed.), 44 Irish Short Stories, New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1955, p. 416,^[3]

     [The mare] had a fine head, small, with lively pointed ears and a greyey velvet muzzle.

   • 1971, John Updike, Rabbit Redux, New York: Knopf, page 203:

     […] I got a suit, kind of grayey-green with checks, really cool, that we can pick up in a week when they make the alterations.