thymey

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Etymology

From thyme +‎ -y.

Adjective

thymey (comparative thymier, superlative thymiest)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of the herb thyme; having the aroma or flavour of thyme.
    • 1886 January 1, “Bee-Keeping in New Zealand”, in The Bee-Keepers' Record, volume IV, London: Houlston & Sons, page 10:
      All of us have read, no doubt, of the honey of Mount Hybla, of which the thymey flavour has been so much extolled by the ancient poets
  2. Covered with or abounding in thyme.
    • 1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Love and Death:
      What time the mighty moon was gathering light
      Love paced the thymy plots of Paradise,
      And all about him roll'd his lustrous eyes;
    • 1896, Alfred Edward Housman, “The Merry Guide”, in A Shropshire Lad:
      Once in the wind of morning
      I ranged the thymy wold;
      The world-wide air was azure
      And all the brooks ran gold.
    • 1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 1, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998:
      The happy land of Narnia—Narnia of the heathery mountains and the thymy downs

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