jeansy

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
   • And, also on State Street, Off Limits, specializing in inexpensive, jeansy clothes opened in the space over Jason’s Sandwich and Ice Cream Cafe.1989 January 17, Jan Macafee, “Fashion: A look at what’s new on the local fashion front”, in The Ann Arbor News, Ann Arbor, Mich., →OCLC, page D3, column 2
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...
   • And the clientele was traditional too: some jeansy young folks playing pool and the electronic game, some polyestered older folks sitting quietly along the bar or at the red-check tables in the small room next to the bar.1980 June 6, Chaplin & Chaplin, “Balmy nights go best with beer, baseball”, in The Sun, volume 287, number 18, Baltimore, Md., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B3, column 5

   Synonyms:

   jeaned