sprayey

sprayey

English

Etymology

spray +‎ -ey

Adjective

sprayey (comparative more sprayey, superlative most sprayey)

1. Full of spray.
   • 1865, The Dublin University Magazine

     […] the open sea, whose blue bounding waters, lashed by the innumerable oars, spread in a sprayey path for a mile behind them.

2. Branching.
   • 1832, Magazine of Natural History

     Their unsuspicious temper makes them not over careful in concealing their nest, it being built on a sprayey part of a horizontal branch of a tree, about 8 ft. or 10 ft. from the ground.