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English
Etymology
From trough + -y.
Adjective
troughy (comparative more troughy, superlative most troughy)
- Having troughs (long narrow depressions between waves).
1850, W. H. Sadler, Miscellaneous Poems, Historical and Descriptive, page 15:Wall'd around with driving foam, / Reels she in the troughy brine; […]
1862, William Martin, Peter Parley's Annual, page 141:[…] they tumbled and rolled over them, much after the manner of two ships in a rough, bobbing, and troughy sea, till at last one came down sprawling with the other above him.