grassy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
/ˈɡɹæsi/
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/ˈɡɹæsi/ · /ˈɡɹɑːsi/
Definition of grassy
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Covered with grass.
“a grassy knoll”
“We threw his grassy shorts straight into the washing machine.”
“However, spider enthusiasts sometimes flock to the grassy region in hopes of spotting a tarantula or capturing one to keep as a pet.”
“The track was stony with a grassy camber up the middle.”
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adj
-
Covered with grass.
“a grassy knoll”
“We threw his grassy shorts straight into the washing machine.”
“However, spider enthusiasts sometimes flock to the grassy region in hopes of spotting a tarantula or capturing one to keep as a pet.”
“The track was stony with a grassy camber up the middle.”
- Resembling grass.
noun
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(alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of grassie (“grass carp; white amur”).
“Grass carp wise the best bit of advice I can give anyone is to ‘make them fight’ in the water. […] These days when a grassy comes to the net if it hasn’t done much I prod it with the net rather than netting them. This usually spooks them into battle.”
“It had to be the grassy I was here to find.”
name
- A locality on King Island, Tasmania, Australia.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English grasy, from Old English *græsiġ, *gærsiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *grasagrōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grasagrōniz, equivalent to grass + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian gäärsich (“grassy”), Dutch grazig (“grassy”), German grasig (“grassy”), Icelandic grösugur (“grassy”).
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