broomy

[ broo-mee ]

adjective

, broom·i·er, broom·i·est.

1. covered with or abounding in broom:

   a golden broomy expanse along the trail.

Word History and Origins

Origin of broomy¹

First recorded in 1640–50; broom + -y ¹

Example Sentences

A nurse with broomy hair ran slap-bang into me.

From Literature

He stands more than 6ft, has a broomy black moustache and a whoosh of gray hair combed across his forehead.

From The Guardian

It was universally lamented, for though not much of a singer, it did what it could, and its little humble song could at any time recall to memory broomy braes and moorlands clad in golden-scented gorse.

From Project Gutenberg

There were three of us to play on the beach now, and climb the broomy hills, and gather wild flowers, and look for birds’ nests in the spring, and three of us to go out with Father Gray in his brown-sailed yawl.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg