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thawy

thawy adjective: becoming liquid; thawing; inclined to or tending to thaw.

Adjective

thawy (comparative more thawy, superlative most thawy)

  1. Becoming liquid; thawing; inclined to or tending to thaw.
  2. Conducive to thawing.
    • The N.W., which is the most frequent in winter, is dry, cold, and elastic; the S.E. soft, thawy, and rainy: the wind seldom blows from west or south, more rarely still from the north.1844, Robert Montgomery Martin, History, Statistics and Geography of Upper and Lower Canada, page 201
    • A warm and broken December had been succeeded by a still warmer and more thawy January.1845, Daniel Pierce Thompson, Locke Amsden, Or, The Schoolmaster: a Tale, published 1855, page 96

Forms of thawy

comparativemore thawy
superlativemost thawy

Origin of thawy

From thaw + -y.

Questions about thawy

What does thawy mean?
Thawy means becoming liquid; thawing; inclined to or tending to thaw.
What part of speech is thawy?
Thawy is an adjective.

Words near thawy in the dictionary

  1. thawless
  2. thawn
  3. thaws
  4. thaws out
  5. thawt
  6. thawy
  7. Thaxted
  8. thaxtomin
  9. thaxtomins
  10. Thaxton
  11. Thaxtons

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