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surgy

surgy adjective: rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.

Adjective

surgy (comparative more surgy, superlative most surgy)

  1. Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.
    • o'er the surgy main1725–1726, Homer, “Book 4”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC

Forms of surgy

comparativemore surgy
superlativemost surgy

Origin of surgy

From surge + -y.

Questions about surgy

What does surgy mean?
Surgy means rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.
What part of speech is surgy?
Surgy is an adjective.

Words near surgy in the dictionary

  1. surgonopod
  2. surgonopods
  3. surgs.
  4. Surguja
  5. Surgut
  6. surgy
  7. Surgères
  8. Suri
  9. Suriano
  10. Surianos
  11. Suribao

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