plovery

plovery

English

Etymology

plover +‎ -y

Adjective

plovery (comparative more plovery, superlative most plovery)

1. Full of plovers.
   • 1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, "Andrew Lang" in A child's garden of verses (page 117)

     The plovery Forest and the seas / That break about the Hebrides

   • 2003, Nina FitzPatrick, Daimons (page 80)

     And the church itself, instead of turning its back to the sea, had embraced the congregation of the waves and the plovery shore.

2. Resembling or characteristic of a plover.
   • 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

     […] I would be engaging you with my plovery soft accents […]