firry

[ fur-ee ]

adjective

, fir·ri·er, fir·ri·est.

1. of or relating to the fir.
2. made of fir.
3. abounding in firs.

firry

/ ˈfɜːrɪ /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or made from fir trees
2. abounding in or dominated by firs

Word History and Origins

Origin of firry¹

First recorded in 1825–35; fir + -y ¹

Example Sentences

The hanging-gardens at Clevedon Court afford a good example of what can be done by a judicious formation of ground where the house is situated near the base of a slope, and this example is none the less interesting for its general agreement with Lamb's "Blakesmoor"—its ample pleasure-garden "rising backwards from the house in triple terraces; ... the verdant quarters backwarder still, and stretching still beyond in old formality, the firry wilderness, the haunt of the squirrel and the day-long murmuring wood-pigeon, with that antique image in the centre."

From Project Gutenberg

It was rough, heathery country on one side, with a string of little blue lakes running like a turquoise necklet round the base of a firry hill, and patches of pale green pasture were set amidst the rocks and heather.

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And 'neath the firry steep a wild swine shrieked, And fought the snarling wolf; his midriff ripped With spume-flaked ivories where the moss was brok'n Far down within the horror of a gorge; And once he saw souls of dead mortals whirl With red-strown hair within the Arctic skies, And all his stolid face was eddied o'er By one faint smile, which grimly flash'd and pass'd, And he knew not its stonyness had changed.

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Mine, too—whose else?—thy costly fruit-garden … thy ampler pleasure-garden … thy firry wilderness….

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Finally one day he met her, coming up a path which led to a spring down in a firry hollow.

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