mellowy

Adjective

mellowy (comparative more mellowy, superlative most mellowy)

1. Soft; unctuous; loamy.
   • Thy plumpe and swelling wombe, whose mellowy gleabe doth beare
     The yellow ripened sheafe, that bendeth with the eare.1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 10 p. 159
   • The first a dry mellowy soil, made up of a due mixture of clay and sand, very deep, and passes under the name of daichy haughs.1812, Great Britain. Board of Agriculture, Agricultural Surveys: Banff, page 68
2. Mild; subdued; gentle; not at all harsh or sharp.
   • mellowy light
   • Like a stream-wrestling lily of mellowy gold, What sweet parted lips, and what glozy blue eyes, Purple-steeped as the heartsease held up to the light!1856 February 23, “Poetical Nuisances”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 328
3. Tender; emotional.
   • Anita saw that look on him, that mellowy, kind of stupid look that some men get when they've been drinking.2004, Charles Fleming, The Ivory Coast
   • Not that he got all soft and mellowy around them, but he'd never met one he didn't like.2016, Marilyn Pappano, A Summer to Remember
4. Mature and soft; ripe.
   • Round its sides, A range of Gardens, gay as those which crown'd Thy work Semiramis, luxuriant waved With Autumn's mellowy growth;1769, John Ogilvie, Providence. Solitude. Paradise. An aeolian ode, page 29
   • Autumn's rich mellowy fruit bedecks the trees, Laid low, beneath a winter's stormy skies.1839, Margaret Richardson, The Buds of Hope: A Collection of Miscellaneous Poems, page 48