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troughy

troughy adjective: having troughs (long narrow depressions between waves).

Adjective

troughy (comparative more troughy, superlative most troughy)

  1. Having troughs (long narrow depressions between waves).
    • Wall'd around with driving foam, / Reels she in the troughy brine; […]1850, W. H. Sadler, Miscellaneous Poems, Historical and Descriptive, page 15
    • […] they tumbled and rolled over them, much after the manner of two ships in a rough, bobbing, and troughy sea, till at last one came down sprawling with the other above him.1862, William Martin, Peter Parley's Annual, page 141

Forms of troughy

comparativemore troughy
superlativemost troughy

Origin of troughy

From trough + -y.

Questions about troughy

What does troughy mean?
Troughy means having troughs (long narrow depressions between waves).
What part of speech is troughy?
Troughy is an adjective.

Words near troughy in the dictionary

  1. Troughton levels
  2. Troughtons
  3. troughway
  4. troughways
  5. troughwise
  6. troughy
  7. troul
  8. trouled
  9. trouling
  10. trouls
  11. trounce

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