pumy
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare dialectal English pummer (“big, large”), and pomey (“pommel”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
pumy (comparative more pumy, superlative most pumy)
- (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 edit
pumy (plural pumies)
- (obsolete) pebble; stone
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Marche. Aegloga Tertius.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC:
- From bough to bough he lepped light ,
And oft the pumies latched
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “pumy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.