surgy

[ sur-jee ]

adjective

1. billowy; surging or swelling.

Word History and Origins

Origin of surgy¹

First recorded in 1575–85; surge + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Here, from the mountain to the surgy main, Fair as a garden, spreads the smiling plain: And lo, the empress of the Indian powers, Their lofty Calicut, resplendent towers; Hers ev'ry fragrance of the spicy shore, Hers ev'ry gem of India's countless store: Great Samoreem, her lord's imperial style, The mighty lord of India's utmost soil: To him the kings their duteous tribute pay, And, at his feet, confess their borrow'd sway.

From Project Gutenberg

I see her beg a coral flute of red From a tailed Triton; and on Ithakan rocks High seated at the starry death of day, When Selene rose from off her salty couch To smile a glory on her face of sorrow, Pipe forth sad airs that made the Sirens weep In their green caves beneath the sodden sands, And hoar Poseidon clear his wrinkled front And still his surgy clamors to a sigh.

From Project Gutenberg

Our little thoughts are staggered at the scene, That splendour so unspeakably intense, And dazzled by its brilliancy of sheen, The senses reel with its magnificence; Below the surgy yeast was boiling, whence Rose on the summer air its restless roar, It smote the broken cliff's bold battlements, Unmoted like the warriors of yore, And plunged upon the moss-clad boulders of the shore.

From Project Gutenberg

This kind of country is always surgy, oceanic, and massy, in its outline: it never affords blue distances, unless seen from a height; and, even then, the nearer groups are large, and draw away the attention from the background.

From Project Gutenberg

His surgy length the wreathing serpent trails, And by his side the rugged camel sails: The winged griffith follows close behind, And spreads his dusky pinions to the wind.

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