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womby

womby adjective: capacious.

Adjective

womby (comparative more womby, superlative most womby)

  1. (obsolete) capacious
    • Thus says my king; an if your father's highness
      Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
      Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
      He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,
      That caves and womby vaultages of France
      Shall chide your trespass and return your mock
      In second accent of his ordnance.1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of womby

comparativemore womby
superlativemost womby

Origin of womby

From Middle English womby, equivalent to womb + -y.

Words that rhyme with womby

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Questions about womby

What does womby mean?
Womby means capacious.
What part of speech is womby?
Womby is an adjective.

Words near womby in the dictionary

  1. Womboota
  2. Wombourne
  3. wombs
  4. Wombwell
  5. Wombwells
  6. womby
  7. wombyn
  8. women
  9. women about town
  10. women and children first
  11. women are wonderful effect

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