Word.ws English Dictionary

vughy

vughy adjective: containing vughs, vuggy.

Adjective

vughy (comparative more vughy, superlative most vughy)

  1. Containing vughs, vuggy.
    • Owing to soft slidy country rock at the beginning, and hard vughy quartz in the reef, very great difficulty was experienced in putting down this hole.1929, New Zealand. Parliament, House of Representatives, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, volume 2, page 20
    • On Mount Gee, the 20 to 50 m thick, dense to highly vughy sequence is characterised by discontinuous, irregular, banded to rhythmically layered quartz, specular hematite and siliceous reddish brown hematitic 'siltstone'.1990, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea, volume 2, page 996

Forms of vughy

comparativemore vughy
superlativemost vughy

Origin of vughy

From vugh + -y.

Questions about vughy

What does vughy mean?
Vughy means containing vughs, vuggy.
What part of speech is vughy?
Vughy is an adjective.

Words near vughy in the dictionary

  1. vuggs
  2. vuggy
  3. vugh
  4. vughs
  5. Vught
  6. vughy
  7. vugly
  8. vugs
  9. vugular
  10. Vuhledar
  11. Vuhlehirsk

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vughy (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “vughy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/vughy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.