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sealy

sealy adjective: resembling or characteristic of a seal (the animal).

Adjective

sealy (comparative more sealy, superlative most sealy)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a seal (the animal).
    • If you reply that, on the contrary, the seal's legs, such as they are, are very characteristic, he takes refuge in the atrocious admission, delivered with a French accent, that they are certainly very sealy legs.1893 February, Arthur Morrison, “Zig-Zags at the Zoo: VIII. Zig-Zag Phocine”, in George Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume V, number 26, London: George Newnes, Ltd....

Proper noun capitalized: Sealy

Sealy (countable and uncountable, plural Sealys)

  1. A surname.
  2. A township in Logan County, North Dakota, United States.
  3. A city in Austin County, Texas, United States, named after George Sealy.

Forms of sealy

Adjective
comparativemore sealy
superlativemost sealy
Proper noun
pluralSealys

Origin of sealy

From seal + -y.

Questions about sealy

What does sealy mean?
Sealy means resembling or characteristic of a seal (the animal).
What part of speech is sealy?
Sealy can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near sealy in the dictionary

  1. sealubber
  2. sealubbers
  3. sealwax
  4. sealwort
  5. sealworts
  6. sealy
  7. Sealyham
  8. Sealyham terrier
  9. Sealyham terriers
  10. Sealyhams
  11. Sealys

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