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thymy

thymy is the alternative spelling of thymey.

Meaning of thymey

Adjective

thymey (comparative thymier, superlative thymiest)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of the herb thyme; having the aroma or flavour of thyme.
    • All of us have read, no doubt, of the honey of Mount Hybla, of which the thymey flavour has been so much extolled by the ancient poets […]1886 January 1, “Bee-Keeping in New Zealand”, in The Bee-Keepers' Record, volume IV, London: Houlston & Sons, page 10
  2. Covered with or abounding in thyme.
    • What time the mighty moon was gathering light
      Love paced the thymy plots of Paradise,
      And all about him roll'd his lustrous eyes;1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Love and Death

Forms of thymy

comparativethymier
superlativethymiest

Questions about thymy

What is thymy the alternative spelling of?
Thymy is the alternative spelling of thymey.

Words near thymy in the dictionary

  1. thymoxamine
  2. thymus
  3. thymus gland
  4. thymus glands
  5. thymuses
  6. thymy
  7. thyne
  8. thynge
  9. thynges
  10. Thynia
  11. thynke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thymy (page history and authors); thymey (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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