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sylphy

sylphy adjective: sylphlike.

Adjective

sylphy (comparative more sylphy, superlative most sylphy)

  1. (obsolete, poetic, rare) sylphlike
    • So swift, so sylphy held the chace.1891, Wilson Armistead, Tales and Legends of the English Lakes, page 166

Forms of sylphy

comparativemore sylphy
superlativemost sylphy

Origin of sylphy

From sylph + -y.

Questions about sylphy

What does sylphy mean?
Sylphy means sylphlike.
What part of speech is sylphy?
Sylphy is an adjective.

Words near sylphy in the dictionary

  1. sylphids
  2. sylphine
  3. sylphish
  4. sylphlike
  5. sylphs
  6. sylphy
  7. Sylt
  8. Syltian
  9. syluer
  10. sylva
  11. sylvacrol

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