grapey
English
Alternative forms
- grapy
Etymology
From Middle English grapy, equivalent to grape + -y.
Adjective
grapey (comparative grapier, superlative grapiest)
- Resembling grapes, grape-like.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
- The God we now behold with open'd eyes;
A herd of spotted panthers round him lies
In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread
On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.
- The God we now behold with open'd eyes;
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
- Of, or pertaining to, grapes.
- full of grapey goodness