crocusy

Adjective

crocusy (comparative more crocusy, superlative most crocusy)

1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of crocuses.
   • You don’t think that perhaps a big chou and ends of pale yellow chiffon—the nice spring crocusy yellow—would improve me?1902, Eleanor Hoyt, “Gowns and a Gobolink”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VII, page 378, column 2
   • Now you have come to see / Out yonder where I go, / You ’ll find your way to follow me— / There ’s the world for you to outgrow, / There ’s Power to be overcome, / There ’s more of you to be, / More of man-total sum / Of soul ere you come to me / The way I go, wholly out there / In the crocusy air—...1911, Frederick Fanning Ayer, “The Man Militant”, in Bell and Wing, New York, N.Y.; London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, stanza IX, pages 286–287
2. (rare) Featuring crocuses.
   • Spring should have begun, yesterday, in earnest but the weather hangs back this year and so far there has not been much “Spring by advance installments.” There hasn’t been a real, balmy, crocusy, johnnyjumpup, Spring day, yet, and this is the 22nd.o f^([sic]) March.1909 March 22, The Piqua Daily Call, volume XXVI, number 135, Piqua, Oh.: The Call Publishing Co., page [2], column 2
   • Having reported all this, consider the significance on such a wonderful, balmy, crocusy day. Lady Bird Johnson can look out from the second-floor White House porch and visualize big beds of tulips in bloom both on the wide lawn and in every planting area in the land.1967 January 25, Ted Lewis, “Capitol Stuff”, in Daily News, volume 48, number 183, New York, N.Y., page 4, column 4