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smouldry

smouldry adjective: smouldering.

Adjective

smouldry (comparative more smouldry, superlative most smouldry)

  1. smouldering
    • A flaming fire ymixt with smouldry smoke1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of smouldry

comparativemore smouldry
superlativemost smouldry

Origin of smouldry

From smoulder + -y.

Questions about smouldry

What does smouldry mean?
Smouldry means smouldering.
What part of speech is smouldry?
Smouldry is an adjective.

Words near smouldry in the dictionary

  1. smoulderingly
  2. smoulderingness
  3. smoulderings
  4. smoulders
  5. smouldring
  6. smouldry
  7. smous
  8. smouse
  9. smoused
  10. smouser
  11. smousers

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