geysery
English
Etymology
From geyser + -y.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡiːzəɹi/, /ˈɡʌɪzəɹi/
Adjective
geysery (comparative more geysery, superlative most geysery)
- Like a geyser.
- 2009, Steve Hockensmith, The Crack in the Lens, page 144:
- I was a little disappointed to have lost the light, for I'd pictured the springs as bubbling, roiling, geysery things, clear-pure and alive.
- 2015, James Parker, ‘Why Read Books Considered Obscene?’, The New York Times, 22 September:
- Bears groaned and shuffled about backstage, a moose looked at me with complete skepticism, and on a visit to Old Faithful — the venerable geyser that obligingly blows its top every 94 minutes or so — I saw a little girl with her mother, picking her way through the geysery, thin-crust landscape and singing, like some kind of gnome from the future, the chorus of Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood.”
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