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sprayier

sprayier is the comparative form of sprayey.

Meaning of sprayey

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

Questions about sprayier

What is sprayier the comparative form of?
Sprayier is the comparative form of sprayey.

Words near sprayier in the dictionary

  1. sprayers
  2. sprayey
  3. sprayful
  4. sprayhood
  5. sprayhoods
  6. sprayier
  7. sprayiest
  8. spraying
  9. spraying and praying
  10. sprayings
  11. sprayless

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