adjective
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of, covered with, or resembling turf
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relating to or characteristic of horse racing or persons connected with it
Other Word Forms
- turfiness noun
Etymology
Origin of turfy
Example Sentences
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“It’s a classically Irish palette, balancing the turfy and the moony.”
From New York Times
It’s a classically Irish palette, balancing the turfy and the moony.
From New York Times
Hellebores may be grown in any ordinary light garden mould, but thrive best in a soil of about equal parts of turfy loam and well-rotted manure, with half a part each of fibrous peat and coarse sand, and in moist but thoroughly-drained situations, more especially where, as at the margins of shrubberies, the plants can receive partial shade in summer.
From Project Gutenberg
Our camping-ground at Muja was flat and turfy, but it had the disadvantage of being a great height above water.
From Project Gutenberg
S. cæspitòsus, L. Culms terete, wiry, densely sheathed at base, in compact turfy tufts; the upper sheath bearing a very short awl-shaped leaf; spikelet ovoid, rusty-color; involucral bract a rigid-pointed scale, resembling the lowest proper scale of the spikelet and scarcely surpassing it; bristles 6, smooth, longer than the abruptly short-pointed achene.—Coast of Maine, alpine summits of N. Eng., swamps of northern N. Y.,
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