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surfy

surfy adjective: of a shore, having lots of breaking waves.

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
    • They do a kind of surfy version of New Order, bright and clattery, a minimalist collision of the 1950s and the 1980s.2009 August 30, Ben Ratliff, “Chanting, Jazzy, Beachy, Funky, Lonely Sounds”, in New York Times

surfy meaning in Tamil

surfy in Tamil

நுரையார்ந்த

Forms of surfy

comparativesurfier
superlativesurfiest

Origin of surfy

From surf + -y.

Questions about surfy

What does surfy mean?
Surfy means of a shore, having lots of breaking waves.
What is surfy in Tamil?
Surfy in Tamil is நுரையார்ந்த. See Surfy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is surfy?
Surfy is an adjective.

Words near surfy in the dictionary

  1. surfs
  2. surfside
  3. surfurylase
  4. surfusion
  5. surfwear
  6. surfy
  7. surg
  8. surg tech
  9. surg techs
  10. surg.
  11. surgation

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