thymy

American  

[tahy-mee, thahy-mee] / ˈtaɪ mi, ˈθaɪ mi /

adjective

thymier, thymiest

1. of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of thyme.

   a thymy fragrance.

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Etymology

Origin of thymy

First recorded in 1720–30; thyme + -y ¹

Example Sentences

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

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

IX Other dogs in thymy dew Tracked the hares, and followed through Sunny moor or meadow: This dog only crept and crept Next a languid cheek that slept, Sharing in the shadow.

From The Dog's Book of Verse by Various

Consider it as I tried to consider it, sitting on that thymy earth-wall while Fr�hel, like a ghostly clock, threw those wavering false dawns across the night.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

Life of the woods, life of the rivers, life of the trees, Life of the rich plain-grasses that seed to the morning breeze, And the thymy mountain-grasses June makes loud with bees.

From Poems of London and Other Verses by Presland, John

Other dogs in thymy dew Track'd the hares, and follow'd through Sunny moor or meadow; This dog only crept and crept Next a languid cheek that slept, Sharing in the shadow.

From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by White, Adam