flamy

American  

[fley-mee] / ˈfleɪ mi /

adjective

flamier, flamiest

1. of or like flame.

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Etymology

Origin of flamy

First recorded in 1485–95; flame + -y ¹

Example Sentences

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flamy flamier

The cat upon the stairs Watches with flamy eye For the sleepy one who shall unawares Let her go stealing by.

From Poems by Howells, William Dean

Say, what impels, amidst surrounding snow Congeal’d, the crocus, flamy bud to glow?

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 by Morley, Henry

A flamy devil as in young Henry, or a brimstone devil as in Geoffrey of Brittany, or a spitfire devil as was John's—with these she could cope, her lord had had them all.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

The jostling, swaying lines on either side boil, and roar, and dash their flamy spray, two hostile billows of a fiery ocean.

From The Battle of Gettysburg by Haskell, Frank Aretas

Who, good sooth, beside Have seen it well, have walked this empty world When she went steaming, and from pulpy hills Have marked the spurting of their flamy crowns?

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean

Then he riz his head and stired straight fer me, his eyes gitting flamier as he looked, an’ his tail all on the jerk.

From Tales from the Veld by Glanville, Ernest