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sprayey

sprayey adjective: full of spray.

Adjective

sprayey (comparative sprayier, superlative sprayiest)

  1. Full of spray.
    • […] the open sea, whose blue bounding waters, lashed by the innumerable oars, spread in a sprayey path for a mile behind them.1865, The Dublin University Magazine
  2. Branching.
    • Their unsuspicious temper makes them not over careful in concealing their nest, it being built on a sprayey part of a horizontal branch of a tree, about 8 ft. or 10 ft. from the ground.1832, Magazine of Natural History

Forms of sprayey

comparativesprayier
superlativesprayiest

Origin of sprayey

From spray + -ey.

Questions about sprayey

What does sprayey mean?
Sprayey means full of spray.
What part of speech is sprayey?
Sprayey is an adjective.

Words near sprayey in the dictionary

  1. sprayed and prayed
  2. sprayed edge
  3. sprayed edges
  4. sprayer
  5. sprayers
  6. sprayey
  7. sprayful
  8. sprayhood
  9. sprayhoods
  10. sprayier
  11. sprayiest

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