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shewy

shewy is the obsolete spelling of showy.

Meaning of showy

Adjective

showy (comparative showier, superlative showiest)

  1. (derogatory, sometimes) Calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye.
  2. Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display.
    • showy flowers
  3. (informal) Inclined to showing (by conveying an impression so that events are described in the narrative), instead of telling (by explicitly stating facts).
    • I think my problem with it is that it's
      a) a little "telly" not "showy" in comparison to the rest […]1999 November 21, sophie, “Squealer : first revision”, in alt.arts.poetry.comments (Usenet)

Forms of shewy

comparativeshewier
superlativeshewiest

Origin of shewy

From shew (noun) + -y.

Questions about shewy

What is shewy the obsolete spelling of?
Shewy is the obsolete spelling of showy.

Words near shewy in the dictionary

  1. shewn forth
  2. shews
  3. shews forth
  4. shewstone
  5. shewstones
  6. shewy
  7. Sheyenne
  8. sheygets
  9. sheygetses
  10. sheyikh
  11. sheyikhs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shewy (page history and authors); showy (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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