Advertisement

Advertisement

broomy

[broo-mee]

adjective

broomier, broomiest 
  1. covered with or abounding in broom.

    a golden broomy expanse along the trail.



Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of broomy1

First recorded in 1640–50; broom + -y 1
Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

A nurse with broomy hair ran slap-bang into me.

Read more on Literature

He stands more than 6ft, has a broomy black moustache and a whoosh of gray hair combed across his forehead.

Read more on The Guardian

It was universally lamented, for though not much of a singer, it did what it could, and its little humble song could at any time recall to memory broomy braes and moorlands clad in golden-scented gorse.

Read more on Project Gutenberg

There were three of us to play on the beach now, and climb the broomy hills, and gather wild flowers, and look for birds’ nests in the spring, and three of us to go out with Father Gray in his brown-sailed yawl.

Read more on Project Gutenberg

No man of forty-five masquerade as a quarter of a century younger in this broomy, thymy air?

Read more on Project Gutenberg

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


broomstick skirtBroonzy