jeans-y

Adjective

jeansy (comparative more jeansy, superlative most jeansy)

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of jeans.
   • What would be a lovely bank of white and pink roses just north of Mallett's are so laden with dust from the grist-mill road that the white roses look a rusty yellow, pink ones a jeansy brown.1939 May 16, V. B. R., “Vicksburgesque”, in The Vicksburg Post
2. (informal) Wearing jeans.
   • Along the yellow, frozen bank, twenty-five or thirty feet high, with its narrow sloping beach to the water, a jeansy string of rustics are squatting on their haunches, absorbing all the sunshine they can, and watching the dragging operations with stolid faces.1838 December 16, the Cincinnati Commercial, quotee, “Twelve Hours at the Wreck. A Visit to the Scene of the Ohio River Calamity. The Revelations of a Week.”, in Nashville Union and American, New...

   Synonyms:

   jeaned