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marchy

marchy adjective: having the character of a march.

Adjective (1)

marchy (comparative marchier, superlative marchiest)

  1. Having the character of a march
    • But halfway through, this stateliness devolves into the kind of marchy clatter that Wagner’s Italian counterparts were writing.2009 February 27, Allan Kozinn, “A Viennese Meal Served With the Dessert First”, in New York Times

Adjective (2) capitalized: Marchy

Marchy (comparative more Marchy, superlative most Marchy)

  1. (rare) Characteristic of the month of March.
    • Not now, but soon, and in a very few weeks, the Marchy winds already blowing, Mr. Eldredge of Mystic will be putting fatherlily his matchless peas in the frost-rid ground—after smoothing over the old ground-mole holes—and our friends in far, fair Florida, may safely move them to return.1926 February 17, Frederick P. Latimer, “To Our Absent Friends”, in The New London Evening Day, New London, Conn., page six, column 4

Forms of marchy

comparativemarchier
superlativemarchiest
comparativemore Marchy
superlativemost Marchy

Origin of marchy

From march + -y.

From March + -y.

Questions about marchy

What does marchy mean?
Marchy means having the character of a march.
What part of speech is marchy?
Marchy is an adjective.

Words near marchy in the dictionary

  1. marcht
  2. Marchuk
  3. Marchuks
  4. Marchwiel
  5. Marchwood
  6. marchy
  7. Marci
  8. Marcia
  9. Marciac
  10. Marcial
  11. Marcian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marchy (page history and authors); Marchy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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