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riffly

riffly adjective: shallow and fast-flowing.

Adjective

riffly (comparative more riffly, superlative most riffly)

  1. Shallow and fast-flowing.
    • I was confronted with that question on a crisp morning last month on Coldwater Pool, a riffly, copper-tinted stretch of the Miramichi River owned by Wilson's Sporting Camps.2007 November 6, Monte Burke, “How Long to Wait for Salmon Before Casting Again? Sometimes, It's All Winter”, in New York Times

Forms of riffly

comparativemore riffly
superlativemost riffly

Origin of riffly

From riffle + -y.

Questions about riffly

What does riffly mean?
Riffly means shallow and fast-flowing.
What part of speech is riffly?
Riffly is an adjective.

Words near riffly in the dictionary

  1. riffled
  2. riffler
  3. rifflers
  4. riffles
  5. riffling
  6. riffly
  7. riffraff
  8. riffraffish
  9. riffraffs
  10. riffs
  11. riffwise

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