thymy

American  

[tahy-mee, thahy-mee] / ˈtaɪ mi, ˈθaɪ mi /

adjective

thymier, thymiest

1. of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of thyme.

   a thymy fragrance.

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Etymology

Origin of thymy

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

Example Sentences

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thymy

Then he threw himself on the thymy grass and tasted liberty.

From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various

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

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Leaving the cluster of three or four farms that formed the land-ward part of Llanyglo, they had turned through a gateless gap in a thymy earth-wall, and all save Mrs. Garden and Minetta had descended.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

Between the groups of trees the soil was clothed with a sort of whitish weed, which perfumed the air with a sweet thymy odour.

From The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude by D'Anvers, N.

To do this we must visit them in their own home, which we shall find in some pine-wood, like the "pincushion-wood," or in some grassy thymy spot, covered with little green tufts.

From Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Pridham, Caroline