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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English mossy, equivalent to moss + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
mossy (comparative mossier, superlative mossiest)
- Covered in or overgrown with moss.
- Synonym: moss-grown
1800, William Wordsworth, Song:A violet by a mossy stone/ Half hidden from the eye,/ Fair as a star when only one/ Is shining in the sky.
Derived terms
Translations
covered in or overgrown with moss
- Bulgarian: мъхест (bg) (mǎhest)
- Catalan: molsut, molsós
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: mossig (nl)
- Esperanto: muska
- Finnish: sammaleinen (fi), sammaloitunut (fi)
- French: moussu (fr) m, moussue (fr) f
- Galician: musgoso, musguento
- Hungarian: mohos (hu), mohlepte (hu)
- Irish: móinteach, móintiúil
- Italian: muscoso m, muscosa f
- Latin: muscōsus
- Polish: omszały m, mszysty (pl)
- Portuguese: musgoso
- Russian: мши́стый (ru) (mšístyj), замше́лый (ru) (zamšélyj), обомше́лый (ru) (obomšélyj)
- Spanish: musgoso
- Swedish: mossig (sv)
- Ukrainian: мохови́тий (moxovýtyj), моха́стий (moxástyj), моши́стий (mošýstyj)
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Etymology 2
Noun
mossy (plural mossies or mossys)
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Alternative form of mossie (“mosquito”)