pumy

English

Etymology

Compare dialectal English pummer (“big, large”), and pomey (“pommel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjuːmi/

Adjective

pumy (comparative more pumy, superlative most pumy)

1. (obsolete) large and rounded
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30:

     A gentle streame, whose murmuring waue did play / Emongst the pumy stones

Noun

pumy (plural pumies)

1. (obsolete) pebble; stone
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “March. Ægloga Tertia.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:

     From bough to bough he lepped light ,
     And oft the pumies latched

Derived terms

• pumy stone

 

References

• “pumy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• umpy, yump