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rimy

[ rahy-mee ]

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adjective

, rim·i·er, rim·i·est.

rimy

/ ˈraɪmɪ /

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Origin of rimy¹

before 1000; Old English hrīmig (not recorded in ME). See rime ¹, -y ¹

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Pallid pedestrians shuffle along rimy pavements hoping that the next chunk of snow to shear off a tenement roof doesn’t have their name on it.

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Denser grows the forest, more ragged the clefts; we seek a path through the rimy brushwood, our hands torn with the brambles....

Yes, he seemed dreadfully ill, hardly able to stand, in fact; for presently he sank down into the rimy grass in a half-faint.

He knew that heavy ice is generally opaque and white, but this was transparent, with rimy streaks on it that ran to and fro in irregular patterns.

And the well-known smell of the rimy vegetables was to the adventuresome Jane an almost irresistible call to the open.

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