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English
Etymology
From death + -y.
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Adjective
deathy (comparative more deathy, superlative most deathy)
- (archaic, poetic) Relating to death.
- 1829, Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay, Canto IV, XXXVIII, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, page 569,
- The sunny hue that tinged her cheek was gone, / A deathy paleness settled in its stead;
1836, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville, First Series, published 1840, page 83:The deathy stillness of a town, and the barred windows, and shut shops, and empty streets, and great long lines of big brick buildins, look melancholy.
1869 February, Justin McCarthy, “My Enemy's Daughter”, in Mary Elizabeth Braddon, editor, Belgravia, volume 7, page 186:I heard a lady near whom I happened to sit one evening in a river-steamer describe it to a companion, when its swampy flats came into sight, as "a deathy place." The phrase was picturesque, effective and very appropriate. It did look a deathy place; but it had the advantages — to me supreme — of being very cheap, and of having easy access to the river, and therefore to town.
- Misspelling of deathly.
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