thymy

[ tahy-mee; spelling pronunciation thahy-mee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, thym·i·er, thym·i·est.

Origin of thymy¹

First recorded in 1720–30; thyme + -y ¹

Others gathered round them by the gap in the thymy earth-wall, and John raised his voice on high.

It owed some rent for the premises it occupies on the thymy banks of the odorous Liffey.

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

First we see Saskia and Alexis walking on the thymy sward of the cliff-top, looking out to the fretted blue of the sea.

She saw Miss Charlecote a few yards off, nearly on all-fours in the thymy grass.

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