shingly

[ shing-glee ]

adjective

1. consisting of or covered with small, waterworn stones or pebbles.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shingly¹

First recorded in 1765–75; shingle ² + -y ¹

Example Sentences

She first tried cold water swimming in September this year, stepping over the shingly sands and into the Thames Estuary.

From The Guardian

When the English traveller Isabella Bird Bishop came in the 1890s and laid eyes on the Cheonggyecheon – sardonically describing it as “one of the ‘sights’ of Seoul” – she wrote of “a wide, walled, open conduit, along which a dark-coloured festering stream slowly drags its malodorous length, among manure and refuse heaps which cover up most of what was once its shingly bed”.

From The Guardian

Every year, it is washed down from higher up in the mountains and finds its way to bedrock, which, in the case of the Bear River, is a very shingly riverbed.

From National Geographic

The common tern and the greater sand-plover nested on the shingly islands in the river.

From Project Gutenberg

The tide was coming in slowly and imperceptibly, and rippling like silver bells on the shingly beach.

From Project Gutenberg