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surfier

surfier is the comparative form of surfy.

Meaning of surfy

Adjective

surfy (comparative surfier, superlative surfiest)

  1. of a shore, having lots of breaking waves
    • Now again in the latter summer do those Kings of the Niblungs ride To chase the sons of the plunder that curse the ocean-side: So over the oaken rollers they run the cutters down Till fair in the first of the deep are the glittering bows up-thrown; But, shining wet and steel-clad, men leap from the...1904, William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
  2. characteristic of surf music
    • All this is set to a driving backdrop of hard, slightly surfy, surprisingly powerful strumming.1993 September 3, Chris Dickinson, “Singers to watch”, in Chicago Reader

Questions about surfier

What is surfier the comparative form of?
Surfier is the comparative form of surfy.

Words near surfier in the dictionary

  1. surfgrasses
  2. surficial
  3. surficially
  4. surfiction
  5. surfie
  6. surfier
  7. surfies
  8. surfiest
  9. surfing
  10. surfings
  11. surfle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surfier (page history and authors); surfy (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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