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housey

housey adjective: resembling or characteristic of house music; houselike.

Adjective

housey (comparative more housey, superlative most housey)

  1. (colloquial) Resembling or characteristic of house music; houselike.
    • Along with a housey bass beat, it makes one of the most astonishing dance tracks you've ever heard.1990 August 31, Bill Wyman, “Bringing the noise: Public Enemy on the front lines”, in Chicago Reader
  2. Of hops: having the fruit mixed up with the leaves, making picking difficult.
    • Variation of crop density and the presence of very 'housey' growth accounted for some of the variation, together with a drop in tempo on some farms as the end of harvest was approached, […]1968, Wye College. Dept. of Hop Research, Department of Hop Research Annual Report (page 35)

Forms of housey

comparativemore housey
superlativemost housey

Origin of housey

From house + -y.

Questions about housey

What does housey mean?
Housey means resembling or characteristic of house music; houselike.
What part of speech is housey?
Housey is an adjective.

Words near housey in the dictionary

  1. housewraps
  2. housewrecker
  3. housewreckers
  4. housewright
  5. housewrights
  6. housey
  7. housey-housey
  8. Housh
  9. Houshes
  10. houshold
  11. housholds

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