sluicy

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English

Etymology

From sluice +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsluːsi/
Rhymes: -uːsi
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Adjective

sluicy (comparative more sluicy, superlative most sluicy)

Falling copiously or in streams, as if from a sluice.
- 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:
  And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain.

References

“sluicy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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